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Ebenezer review – Johnny Depp’s Scrooge tries to exorcise ghosts of business past

There have been countless iterations on the Charles Dickens yuletide classic, “A Christmas Carol” which was first birthed to the world as a novella in 1843, but has been a favorite of Hollywood for nearly a century.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated November 12, 2026, 5:14 PM UTC
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  • Actors have warmed to the bah humbug of it all in various takes beginning with Reginald Owen in […].

It sticks to the accepted narrative beats and more or less all the familiar episodes, but with a few twists.

(The answer is … sure, as long as you say sorry and change your ways.

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