Ms. Scrooge

Ms. Scrooge is a 1997 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy drama film starring Cicely Tyson and Katherine Helmond and is an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The film changes the roles of Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley into female counterparts. The film is also notable for mentioning that Tiny Tim is dying of a "Slow growing congenital tumor", instead of an unnamed condition. The films setting is changed from London to Providence, Rhode Island. It originally aired on USA Network on December 10, 1997.