Blackadder's - A Christmas Carol (DVD) Rowan Atkinson, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane

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Blackadder's Christmas Carol 1988 DVD (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Color. In all its digitally re-mastered beauty! New lower price. Starrin g: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Hugh Laurie and Jim Broadbent. Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. Directed by Richard Boden. Among the many films and TV shows which add a new twist to Charles Dickens' classic tale, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" is the most ingenious. Made between "Blackadder the Third" (1987) and "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), the inspired concept is to recast the self-serving Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) in Dickens' Scrooge role, but rather than a misanthropic miser make him the most kind-hearted man in England. Tony Robinson's Baldrick is as moronic as ever, while Robbie Coltrane plays the Spirit of Christmas like a forerunner to his Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, showing Edmund visions of past and future to not quite the desired effect. Hugh Laurie returns as the Prince Regent from Blackadder the Third and the entire court from Blackadder II (1986) is reassembled for japes involving a merry seasonal death warrant. Miranda Richardson is outrageously capricious as Elizabeth I, then takes the character a stage further in a decadent space opera future which also sees Patsy (Nursie) Byrne as an android. As laugh-out-loud funny as the regular Blackadder series; this is an excellent Yuletide special. Show more