Movie Review: ** Ms. Scrooge (1997)

This is a twist on the Christmas Carol story.  It is set with an African American woman, who lost her father to fire, and her mother to heart ache, and her brother to the Viet Nam War.  Ebenita Scrooge's (Cicely Tyson) only surviving relative is her nephew (Michael Beach), who is a preacher at a local church.  She treats her employees with contempt, and hoards her money in  vault in her room.  This is not my favorite.  The first three ghosts, seem to have little effect on her.  Her former partner, Maude Marley (Katherine Helmond) as well as Christmas past or present, scarcely have any effect, rather than to make her feel bad.  She doesn't seem effected until she sees some of her future decisions, if she doesn't change.  The change from the next morning, seems false.  They go through the story and the motions, but something is missing for me.