His Jacob Marley figure is the late Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), the cynic who reared the orphaned Connor to exploit women. None so far has been as bad as this unpleasant comedy in which priapic Manhattan celebrity photographer Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) faces up to his sad, lecherous life on the eve of his young brother's wedding.
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol has been endlessly remade since the earliest silent days: musicalised, Disneyfied, Muppeted, and imaginatively varied in such masterpieces as Wild Strawberries and Groundhog Day.
