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Scrooged, with the Albert Finney version running it a very close second.

I also went to see a stage version this evening to celebrate breaking off from work for Christmas, and it was really excellent, one of my favourite versions I've seen. It had an interesting spin on things where the chap who played Bob Cratchit was deaf IRL, so they obviously played the character as deaf, too. What made it really interesting was that every other character apart from Scrooge did sign language for all their lines as they spoke them (in a subtle and unobtrusive way, which isn't easy to do - because it's on the stage people naturally tend to act with their whole body more, so the signing was done as if it was just exaggerated hand movements as they spoke, and in the rare musical moments the sign language was incorporated into the dance routines - gonna be completely honest, if I hadn't read the program while I was in my seat waiting for the start, I probably wouldn't have clicked on that they were doing the sign language for a good half hour, so seemlessly was it incorporated). Scrooge not doing it was a really brilliant and subtle bit of characterisation, and I'm not gonna lie, when it got to the end and he slowly and awkwardly signed "Merry Christmas, Bob" to Cratchit, I cried a little. It was a really wonderful show.