This retelling of Dickens' tale is another classic in the making. A school production of "A Christmas Carol" has a young boy feelingnervous: his father, who is always away with business, is actuallyin the audience. Will the play's message of Christmas cheerreach his father's distracted heart?

A contemporary family story frames and echoes the events of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", which appears throughout as the script of a much-anticipated school play.