and Peter Neville attempt to modernize the well-worn holiday tale by putting a gay spin on it. With Scrooge & Marley, debut directors Richard Knight Jr. Scrooge & Marley (2012, 91 min.): Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is an all-too-familiar story that has had its fair share of Hollywood adaptations. The offer of marriage is accepted, and then quickly rejected - all in the days leading up to Christmas. Red Lodge(2013, 78 min): A man proposes to his boyfriend.