Ms. Scrooge

Ms. Scrooge

87 mins | Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie | Dec. 10, 1997

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.

Ms. Scrooge

87 mins | Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie | Dec. 10, 1997

Ms. Scrooge
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.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Wilshire Court Productions, Power Pictures, USA Network
Original title Ms. Scrooge
Directors John Korty
Writers John McGreevey, Charles Dickens

Cast

Cicely Tyson

as Ms. Ebenita Scrooge

Katherine Helmond

as Maude Marley

Michael Beach

as Reverend Luke

John Bourgeois

as Bob Cratchit

Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly

as Young Ebenita

Karen Glave

as Teenage Ebenita

Ken James

as Sam Catherwood

Arsinée Khanjian

as Libba Cratchit

William Greenblatt

as Tiny Tim

Michael J. Reynolds

as Ghost of Christmas Past

Shaun Austin-Olsen

as Spirit Present

Julian Richings

as Christmas Yet to Come

Ashley Brown

as Chris

Natasha Greenblatt

as Sis Cratchit

Allegra Fulton

as Marie