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Ms. Scrooge(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-12-10
56%
11 Votes
Time: 1h 27m
Let's just say she didn't make Santa's 'nice' list.
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Power Pictures
Movie: Ms. Scrooge
Top 10 Billed Cast
Cicely Tyson
Ms. Ebenita Scrooge
Katherine Helmond
Maude Marley
Michael Beach
Reverend Luke
John Bourgeois
Bob Cratchit
Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
Young Ebenita
Karen Glave
Teenage Ebenita
Ken James
Sam Catherwood
Arsinée Khanjian
Libba Cratchit
William Greenblatt
Tiny Tim
Michael J. Reynolds
Ghost of Christmas Past
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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.
Release Date
1997-12-10
Average
5.636
Rating:
2.8 startsTagline
Let's just say she didn't make Santa's 'nice' list.
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