Best "A Christmas Carol" movie?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

The problem to me with picard is that hes bald.
I need scrooge to have that scraggly grey hair.

He's also too Capt.-Picard dictatorial:
In the scene with Marley, Stewart doesn't come off as the least bit scared of seeing a ghostly apparition in his room--which even George C. Scott managed to be--and talks down to Marley as if he's trying to talk a friend out of buying a car. ("Ja-cob, you were always a good man of business...")

Robert Halmi Hallmark series can be either very good (like Gulliver or the Odyssey) or very bad (like Merlin), but never ever very deep, and most of the stuff that was sent to TNT Network was in the aggressively-mediocre middle.
Stewart only co-x-produced the movie so he could cash in on his popular stage reading of the book, but reading Scrooge and playing him are two different things--As Dickensian misers go, he's more suited to iron-fisted Ralph Nickelby than Scrooge.