Ms. Scrooge

Ms. Scrooge (1997)

Let's just say she didn't make Santa's 'nice' list.

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

Date of release
1997-12-10
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
Director
John Korty

Casting

Interesting facts

Ms. Scrooge is a 1997 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy drama film starring Cicely Tyson and Katherine Helmond and is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The film changes the roles of Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley into female counterparts. The film is also notable for mentioning that Tiny Tim is dying of a "slow-growing congenital tumor", instead of an unnamed condition. The film's setting is changed from London to Providence, Rhode Island. It originally aired on USA Network on December 10, 1997.

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