General Patton informs Michael Moore that if Abe Lincoln didn't fight the civil war slavery would still exist. What a stupid comparison.
filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley), a parody of Michael Moore, is campaigning to end the celebration of the Fourth of July. Malone truculently argues that America's past and present are both offensive, and therefore should not be celebrated. Josh Malone, Michael's nephew, is a naval officer about to deploy to the Persian Gulf, but his uncle regards him with contempt. On the evening of July 3rd, President John F. Kennedy steps out of a teleivision set, slaps Michael silly, and tells him that he will be visited by three spirits.
The next morning, Malone is then visited by General George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer), who tries to make him rethink his view of America. Arguing that sometimes war is necessary for the greater cause, Gen. Patton shows him an alternate world where slavery still exists because Lincoln chose not to fight the Civil War. He also shows the filmmaker how British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Adolf Hitler. Malone is also visited by George Washington (Jon Voight) who takes him to the very church in New York where he was sworn in as the first President. Washington tells him how the dust in the church is the dust from the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Shaken but still unmoved, Malone is visited by the Angel of Death (Trace Adkins), who takes him to a future Los Angeles which has been taken over by radical Islamists. To Malone's horror, Victoria's Secret has switched to selling burkhas and the Hollywood Hills are emblasioned with verses from the Koran. Later, he is taken to the ruins of his hometown in Michigan, which has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb planted by Al Qaeda. In a makeshift morgue, a horrified Malone learns that he will be killed in this attack, leaving nothing behind but his trademark hat and enormous rear end. Malone pleads for his life with the Angel, promising to change.
Later, Malone arrives at an anti-Fourth of July protest rally and publically renounces his former views. The outraged protesters call him a traitor and charge the podium intending to murder him. He is rescued, however, by American Servicemen and pulled inside of a country music concert. After barely preventing a terrorist bombing there, he runs to the docks in time to see his nephew Josh off to the Persian Gulf. He tells Josh how very proud he is of him and promises to look in on his wife and family during his deployment.
In the film's end, Malone is a changed man who loves America and realizes how precious freedom is. Taking Patton's advice to advocate American values in film, he begins filming a JFK biopic, which he intends to be far more accurate than Oliver Stone's movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Carol
As a result of the poor box office showing, the film's website suggested that "ticket fraud" had occurred, where moviegoers had bought tickets for An American Carol but had instead been given tickets to see another film in an attempt to artificially minimize the film's box office draw. The page has since been taken down.<14>
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