- HD 1080
- Runtime: 98m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: Canada, United States of America
- Director: Eric Till
- Stars: Henry Winkler, David Wayne, Chris Wiggins, R.H. Thomson, Ken Pogue
- keywords: holiday, great depression, new england, ghost, christmas
- Production_studio: Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Jon Slan Productions, Smith-Hemion Productions
- Slogan: Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Night Flight Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Peacock Premium Plus
- The An American Christmas Carol is featured in the top rankings of 1979
- #11 in Top Family Movies of 1979
- #92 in Top Drama Movies of 1979
- #6 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1979
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.