An American Carol

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An American Carol

PG-13,

2008,

1h 24m,

Comedy

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Documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) makes movies about America's shortcomings and is now embarking on a campaign to abolish July 4th. However, he meets John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin) on the eve of the holiday, who tells Malone that he will soon be visited by three ghosts. The spirits of a country singer (Trace Adkins), Gen. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) and George Washington (Jon Voight) visit Malone and try to instill a sense of patriotism and love for his country.

Critics Consensus

An American Carol suffers not so much from its perceived political bias, but from the fact that it simply is not very funny.

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Nov 29, 2018

The mean spirit of Zucker's satire hardly jibes with the liberal spirits of the original tale.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Oct 18, 2008

0.5/5

This movie is seriously unfunny, and it's not just my admittedly left-wing politics that are in the way of my getting the joke.

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Susan Walker

Toronto Star

Oct 13, 2008

1/4

Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 2, 2020

0/4.0

It fails. Miserably.

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

Nov 6, 2019

It often takes mockery and even silliness to make one see the best and worst of a situation or themselves or just have to have some fun and it always seems to be funnier when done on film and by David Zucker.

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Megan Basham

WORLD

Oct 10, 2018

American Carol is [Zucker's] first attempt to merge his newfound worldview with his work. Unfortunately, he swings at so many progressive targets, the punches he does land aren't backed by enough force.

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Hermione R

Aug 31, 2018

It's only dumped-on because the film is honest and Conservative. Liberals hate it for exposing a lot of their crap; Damn funny film !!! Rotten Tomatoes does pretty good film ratings, until it comes to good films espousing real values, and not Liberal talking points.

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Aug 5, 2018

So on point and even more relevant today. Hilarious except that it's sadly accurate. This came out in October of 2008 when freedom of speech was still allowed in America. They joke about michael moore ( malone in the movie) abolishing the 4th of July. Sadly this year , leftists actually attempted this. Great satire. I highly recommend it.

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Kylo M

Jul 27, 2017

Slap-stick funny! Nice new adaptation of "A Christmas Carol".

Rey S

Sep 29, 2016

Funny biting critique of leftard Hollyweird so of course leftists hate it. Good movie for those looking for real political comedy that's more than leftist propaganda

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Synopsis

Documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin Farley) makes movies about America's shortcomings and is now embarking on a campaign to abolish July 4th. However, he meets John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin) on the eve of the holiday, who tells Malone that he will soon be visited by three ghosts. The spirits of a country singer (Trace Adkins), Gen. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) and George Washington (Jon Voight) visit Malone and try to instill a sense of patriotism and love for his country.

Director: David Zucker
Producer: Stephen McEveety, John Shepherd, David W. Zucker
Screenwriter: Myrna Sokoloff, David Zucker
Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment
Production Co: MPower
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Drug Material|Rude and Irreverent Content)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 3, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 26, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.0M
Runtime: 1h 24m

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