December 12 – 28, 2025

 

Manual Cinema’s magical and inventive new holiday tradition returns to the Studebaker Theater!

Avowed holiday skeptic Aunt Trudy has been reluctantly recruited to carry on her late husband Joe’s tradition of spreading Christmas cheer. Alone in her Chicago home on Christmas Eve, she reconstructs his annual Christmas Carol puppet show over a Zoom call, while the family celebrates from afar. But as Trudy dives deeper into the story, the puppets take on a life of their own and the family call transforms into a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind cinematic reimagining of Dickens’s classic ghost story.

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Photos: Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol at the Studebaker Theater, 2024. Photos by Jenn Udoni | Franco Images

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