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Ebenezer | Year: 1998 Directed: - Ken Jubenvill One Step Beyond Much as I love all things Scrooge, this New-Age through-the-corral spin on Dickens leaves so much to be desired it utterly fails. Palance's cheating Western gambler, Scrooge is far too over-the-top to be believeable even without the continuity, pacing and script problems that plague the film, not to mention a supporting cast straight out of your local high school's annual butchering of Our Town. But aside from a weak storyline that for the most part ignores Dickens altogether, the lamest aspect of this film is the characterizations themselves -- a bumbling, spineless Cratchit and simpering wife; a cloying Tiny Tim who breaks into unconvincing peals of faux-tuburcular coughing at the drop of every dramatic hat; an ineffectual nephew-cum-sheriff wearing a ridiculous bell-boy's hat; the award for Worst Makeup on a Dead Marley (although the director mercifully changes the dead man's name to Marlow -- perhaps to avoid lawsuit) along with about a dozen or so other badly-drawn and generally useless characters who have no Dickensian cognates at all. After the Three Ghosts have done muddying up any possible rhyme or reason to the relationships on-screen and the viewer has consigned the entire cast to perdition together, there is a finale at once so syrupy as to cause diabetes in lab rats and less believeable than an Iraqi disarmament report. In short: avoid this stinker at all costs -- its only redeeming value is how much better some of the 2- and 3-star Scrooge attempts appear by contrast. good christmas movie I would rate this film as a must see at christmas, or if like me you enjoy westerns, any time of the year.I received this film as a free gift but I would have bought the film as I am a jack palance fan and he puts in a good performance as usual! EBENEZER FRESH NEW CHRISTMAS FLICK. A MUST SE Buy Ebenezer at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Ebenezer Search with the Priority Search Engine on Ebenezer This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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