"The Man Who Invented Christmas" (dickens and the writing of "christmas carol") trailer

[niyad]

[OKNancy]

1. that looks like it will be a wonderful diversion from the tribulations

of daily life.

[Honeycombe8]

2. I would like to see that. In fact, I can hardly wait!

I thought the lead guy looked familiar. He came to global attention when he was in Downton Abbey. Then he starred in a movie "The Guest."

[hunter]

3. Half the adults of my childhood believed Christmas was a pagan holiday...

... to be despised, or to be celebrated in drunken revelry

Christmas was a time of religious warfare, Christmas trees erected in spite, brawls; a dark time of troubles.

Damn you, Dickens...

[niyad]

5. what the xians co-opted from us is indeed a pagan holiday, called yule, the winter solstice.

celebrating the returning of the light.

but then, most of their holidays were stolen from us.

[SCantiGOP]

4. Thanks, hadn't seen this yet

This is our family tradition. A Raleigh NC theater group started putting on a modernized funny Christmas Carol with a charity in Columbia SC that I was involved in.

My now 38 year old daughter and 33 YO son both fell asleep in my lap in some early years. About 15 years ago they had to drop the Columbia venue. We have started going to Durham to see it if we can all schedule it.

[niyad]

6. I love the holidays, and the many versions of this story that appear. wish I could see yours!