An American Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge gets the parody treatment from veteran writer/director David Zucker (Airplane!, Scary Movie 4) with this comedy starring Kevin Farley as a derisive documentarian (à la Michael Moore) who's visited by three ghosts intent on instilling the American spirit in the disillusioned ...more

Charles Dickens' classic novel A Christmas Carol serves as the model and framework for An American Carol, which on the surface, appears to be a satire that skewers the current Middle Eastern conflict and its relationship with America. Whereas Dickens' curmudgeonly, cheap Scrooge despised Christmas, An American Carol's overweight, heavily bearded and overly critical Michael Malone (Kevin Farley)—in a painfully obvious swipe at leftist documentarian Michael Moore—hates the Fourth of July and all ...more