Where to watch The Man Who Invented Christmas(2017)

Name: The Man Who Invented Christmas
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy, Family
Released: 2017-10-12
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Justin Edwards, Morfydd Clark

Movie · 2017 · 1h 45m · Drama, History, Comedy

In the United States, The Man Who Invented Christmas is available to stream on HBO Max and Cinemax. It's also free on Kanopy and Hoopla. You can also rent or buy it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube.

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The Man Who Invented Christmas plot summary

How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.