Ms. Scrooge
Let's just say she didn't make Santa's 'nice' list.
1997 · 1h 27m · G
Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
Directed by
John Korty
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Korty Director
- Cicely Tyson as Ms. Ebenita Scrooge
- Katherine Helmond as Maude Marley
- Michael Beach as Reverend Luke
- John Bourgeois as Cratchit
- Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly as Young Ebenita
- Karen Glave as Teenage Ebenita
- Ken James as Sam Catherwood
- Arsinée Khanjian as Cratchit
- William Greenblatt as Tiny Tim
- Michael J. Reynolds as Ghost of Christmas Past
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