History Film / AChristmasCarol1999

* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: The "dead as a doornail" is done as a conversation between Scrooge, the priest, and the coroner in which the coroner wonders aloud why a nail is supposed to be the deadest piece of ironmongery.

* BenevolentBoss: Mr. Fezziwig is a large, jovial man who is adored by his workers and throws a generous Christmas dance every year. When Scrooge revisits the memory with Christmas Past, he starts reminiscing about the advice Fezziwig used to give him, too.

''A Christmas Carol'' (1999) is yet another adaptation of Creator/CharlesDickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', starring Sir Creator/PatrickStewart as the old, hard-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge. It was produced by Creator/{{TNT}} and Hallmark Entertainment for TV. It sticks very close to the book for the most part, including several minor sequences usually left out of adaptations.

''A Christmas Carol'' (1999) is yet another adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', starring Sir Creator/PatrickStewart as the old, hard-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge. It was produced by TNT and Hallmark Entertainment for TV. It sticks very close to the book for the most part, including several minor sequences usually left out of adaptations.

* TheComicallySerious: Marley’s ghost is temporarily dumbfounded by Scrooge attributing his appearance to bad food, i.e. moldy cheese or an underdone turnip. Then he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and starts screaming.

* TheComicallySerious: Marley’s ghost is temporarily dumbfounded by Scrooge attributing his appearance to bad food, ie moldy cheese or an underdone turnip. Then he reaches his RageBreakingPoint and starts screaming.

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Creator/PatrickStewart is about to whack you with his walking stick, something that almost happens to a street urchin in-universe, too.

* TruerToTheText: This adaptation includes three scenes almost always omitted from other adaptations--the lighthouse workers, coal miners, and sailors on a ship at sea. We see them in montages with different groups of people in different sections of the country singing ''Silent Night''. Ignorance and Want are also included, as are the young debtors relieved at Scrooge's death, his shrouded corpse, Bob sitting by Tiny Tim's body and mentioning Fred in the future, Scrooge extinguishing The Ghost of Christmas Past with a giant candle snuffer, the other chained spirits Marley shows Scrooge and his face appearing on the tiles of Scrooge's fireplace. (On the other hand, Scrooge making amends with the charity collectors gets AdaptedOut.)

* TruerToTheText: This adaptation includes three scenes almost always omitted from other adaptations--the lighthouse workers, coal miners, and sailors on a ship at sea. We see them in montages with different groups of people in different sections of the country singing ''Silent Night''. Ignorance and Want are also included, as are the young debtors relieved at Scrooge's death, Bob sitting by Tiny Tim's body and mentioning Fred in the future, Scrooge extinguishing The Ghost of Christmas Past with a giant candle snuffer, the other chained spirits Marley shows Scrooge and his face appearing on the tiles of Scrooge's fireplace. (On the other hand, Scrooge making amends with the charity collectors gets AdaptedOut.)

* TruerToTheText: This adaptation includes three scenes almost always omitted from other adaptations--the lighthouse workers, coal miners, and sailors on a ship at sea. We see them in montages with different groups of people in different sections of the country singing ''Silent Night''. Ignorance and Want are also included, as are the young debtors relieved at Scrooge's death, Bob sitting by Tiny Tim's body and mentioning Fred in the future, the other chained spirits Marley shows Scrooge and his face appearing on the tiles of Scrooge's fireplace. (On the other hand, Scrooge making amends with the charity collectors gets AdaptedOut.)