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Bookseller's Foray Into Hollywood Is A Dickens Of A Tale

Mitch Kaplan runs Books & Books in Miami, and helped start the popular Miami Book Fair. Now, he's making movies based on books, like the new Charles Dickens biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas.
<a href="https://www.epk.tv/_tape-room/the-man-who-invented-christmas/clips/press-kit/images/TMWIC_2085_R_CROP_proxy_md.jpg" data-asset-id="764857" data-display-type="AssetCategory"></a>Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer as Ebenezer Scrooge in <em>The Man Who Invented Christmas</em>.

Among the many movies opening for the holidays is one with a new take on an old story. The Man Who Invented Christmas, starring Dan Stevens and Christopher Plummer, is about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol. It's a distinctly literary tale — which isn't surprising, since one of the film's producers is a well known bookseller taking his first dip in the world of film.

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