This is the telling of the Charles Dickens classic The Christmas Carol. The only difference is that it is told by The Muppets (with a few humans thrown in for good measure, notably Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge).

On Christmas Eve, he is as crotchety as ever, and his employees – rats mostly, led by Kermit the Frog as Bob Kratchit – ask for the next day off, and reluctantly, Scrooge agrees. That night, however, he is visited by five ghosts. This differs slightly from the Dickens telling, because The Muppets needed to fit in Statler and Waldorf (Jacob and Robert Marley, respectively – only Jacob was in the original). Marley and Marley come to tell Scrooge that he will be visited by three ghosts this night. They also deliver one of the best songs in the show.

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Adrien Brody stars as Jack Starks in this cross between Jacob’s Ladder and The Butterfly Effect.

While it starts off by making you think that you’re about to watch a war movie, it’s definitely not a war movie. That just gets things started. Once Starks dies on the battlefield, he is found walking down a road, where he helps a little girl and her mother get their car started. Later on the same road, he ends up getting arrested as an officer is shot and killed. We never find out if he did it or imagined the other person who did the killing to mask part of his mind.

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