Estella Scrooge

Estella Scrooge

NR 2020 · 130 min · ★ 10.0 · Family, Music

Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!

Directed by John Caird · Written by John Caird

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Betsy Wolfe Estella Scrooge
Clifton Duncan Phillip "Pip" Nickleby
Lauren Patten Dawkins
Patrick Page Mr. Merdle
Carolee Carmello Marla Havisham
Danny Burstein Ebenezer Scrooge
Megan McGinnis Betty Cratchit
Tom Nelis Dedlock
Em Grosland Smike
Phoenix Best Charity / Mercy
David Bryant Mr. Podsnap
Gabrielle Reid Mrs. Pumblechook

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