Ms. Scrooge

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Ms. Scrooge ★★½ 1997 (G)

Modern-day distaff version of the Dickens Christmas saga. Ebenita Scrooge (Tyson) is a miserly banker but you get the same familiar characters with the Crachits and Tiny Tim as well as the various ghosts to show Ebenita the errors of her ways. 87m/ C VHS . Cicely Tyson, Katherine Helmond, Michael Beach, John Bourgeois, Arsinee Khanjian, William Greenblatt, Rae'ven (Alyia Larrymore) Kelly, Michael J. Reynolds; D: John Korty; W: John McGreevey; C: Elemer Ragalyi; M: David Shire. CABLE

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