Product Details

• Actors: Jack Palance, Rick Schroder, Amy Locane, Albert Schultz, Daryl Shuttleworth
• Directors: Ken Jubenvill
• Writers: Chad Oakes, Charles Dickens, Donald Martin, Douglas Berquist, Michael Frislev
• Producers: Barbara Ligeti, Chad Oakes
• Format: Color, Live, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Plaza Entertainment,
• VHS Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630510171X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,041 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2 stars for quality + 1 star for novelty!, May 16, 1999

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David Thomas (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ebenezer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Okay, so the first thing I said while watching this film was "So it's not Academy Award material". No matter. I've seen many versions of Dicken's Christmas Carol. This one was novel and original, and that's saying something.
. . . So for acting (especially on the part of the extras and bit parts) and the casting (of the female bit parts, stock hollywood filler types as opposed to real people) this film gets low marks. But for novelty and innovation this film garners the extra star. The Christmas Future sequence was especially creative. Ebeneezer didn't look at his own gravestone at some indeterminate time in the future -- He saw (and tried vainly to prevent) himself in a gunfight that would be happening the next day... And even that did not turn out in an obvious manner.
. . . Palance does an excellent job as Ebeneezer, and it's good to see Rick Schroeder show up again after so many years. He's not Ford or Pheonix or Murray, but he's alright.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fresh Approach, October 22, 2004

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C. T. Hudson "Raider Fan" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ebenezer (DVD)

This movie is probably one of my favorite movies ever for Christmas. No, it probably doesn't have the best story line or even the best production. But as a huge fan of westerns and a huge fan of A Christmas Carol, I thought the middle ground where these two met was great. I would recommend this movie to anyone, although hard to get your hands on(I searched for 2 years trying to get the DVD),it is worth the effort to find it. It's wonderful to have it in my collection now. The ending is quite magical and the overall theme is good things can change bad people.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A great western version of a classic Christmas story, October 1, 1999

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D. Bennett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ebenezer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I know I am a sucker for pert near anything western. But I did enjoy Jack Palance as Ebeneezer in this remake of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol". Definitly has an old west touch to it.