Director: Joe Valenti
What happens to a reformed miser after the ghosts leave? This low-budget fantasy answers with a new job for Ebenezer Scrooge.
What is Ebenezer the Traveler about?
Picking up where the classic ghost story ends, this fantasy imagines Ebenezer Scrooge years after his overnight change of heart, now recruited into the same supernatural system that once haunted him. Instead of visiting his own past, present, and future, Scrooge is sent out to intervene in other people's lives, guiding strangers toward the kind of turnaround he once needed himself. The role forces him to confront how uneven and fragile that kind of change really is when he's the one trying to spark it in someone else rather than receive it. Structured as an episodic string of interventions rather than a single continuous plot, the film treats its premise less as a sequel and more as a thought experiment: can the machinery that reforms one hardened man be scaled up into something like an afterlife service? The tone leans toward earnest, family-friendly fantasy rather than horror, keeping the focus on redemption arcs borrowed and repeated across new characters each time Scrooge is dispatched.
Cast & crew
Jerry Parisi takes on the older, spirit-enlisted version of Scrooge, joined by Amanda Rae Dodoson, Michael Bertolini, Austen Eisenberg, Leland Prater, Emily Jeanne Phillips, Peter Quinones, and Ellen Boscov across the film's roster of people he's sent to help.
Context & significance
Directed by Joe Valenti, Ebenezer the Traveler is a 2024 American production and an unofficial continuation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol rather than a direct adaptation of it. Running 102 minutes, it belongs to the wave of low-budget holiday fantasies built around a well-known public-domain character reimagined in an afterlife or spirit-world setting.
Where & how to watch
Ebenezer the Traveler can be streamed on K-Time with a free account login, and this page can be read without signing in at all. K-Time's Farsi-language interface and Persian-focused catalog make holiday fantasy titles like this one easy to find for Iranian diaspora audiences alongside the platform's wider international lineup.