Cicely Tyson drags Ebenezer through a gender-bender Christmas carol and it's gloriously unhinged.
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.
Acting
Cicely Tyson commits harder than this budget deserved.
Costume
Maude Marley's ghostly fur coat is camp perfection.
Production
Shot in actual Newport mansions on a shoestring.
Director
John Korty
Cicely Tyson
Ms. Ebenita Scrooge
Katherine Helmond
Maude Marley
Michael Beach
Reverend Luke
John Bourgeois
Bob Cratchit
Karen Glave
Teenage Ebenita
Ken James
Sam Catherwood
Arsinée Khanjian
Libba Cratchit
William Greenblatt
Tiny Tim
Michael J. Reynolds
Ghost of Christmas Past
Julian Richings
Christmas Yet to Come
Natasha Greenblatt
Sis Cratchit
Allegra Fulton
Marie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director John Korty also helmed the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, making this his SECOND cursed Christmas project.
This was part of a 1990s wave of diverse Christmas Carol adaptations including Vanessa Williams' 'A Diva's Christmas Carol,' but Tyson's version is the only one that refuses to make Scrooge glamorous or funny.
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