A Diva's Christmas Carol
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DVD cover of A Diva's Christmas Carol
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| Based on |
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| Written by | Richard Schenkman |
| Directed by | Richard Schenkman |
| Starring |
Vanessa L. Williams Rozonda Thomas Brian McNamara Kathy Griffin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Running time | 120 minutes |
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| Original network | VH1 |
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A Diva's Christmas Carol is a 2000 VH1-original Christmas television film starring Vanessa L. Williams, Rozonda Thomas, Brian McNamara and Kathy Griffin. The film is based on the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, featuring an ego-driven pop singer who gets a reality check by three Christmas spirits. The film premiered on December 13, 2000.
Ebony Scrooge (Williams) is one of the world's most successful pop singers. However, with her cold-hearted soul and nasty attitude, she lacks a great deal of holiday cheer and makes her manager Bob anything but happy.
While in New York for a charity concert, Ebony (who was once part of the 1980s trio "Desire") is visited by the ghost of one of her former singing partners, Marli Jacob (Thomas), who died in a car crash in 1990. She tells Ebony that she was unhappy with her for willingly abandoning her during her struggles with her drug addiction which ultimately led to the car accident that killed her. She also mentions that God knows Ebony took advantage of Marli's death to plot her solo career and how unfair she had been to Terry. Because of it, Marli is still earthbound and in chains, and warns Ebony of a similar doom. Marli tells her that she will be visited by three spirits: Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, and Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, who will hopefully turn Ebony's life around.
The Ghost of Christmas Past (Kathy Griffin) shows Ebony her tragic past with her abusive alcoholic father, and how she became the cold person she is today because of it. The only person that made her feel loved was her brother, Ronnie, and even he was trying to be positive for their family, which continued even after the two were removed from their father's custody and split up in foster care. It was also revealed that even though Ebony had been adopted into a nice family, she had refused to visit her father, whom she has never forgiven for the abuse he put both her and Ronnie through. After visiting their father, Ronnie learned that she had been right about him not having changed his ways after he began drinking again and left home for good. Ronnie later married and had a daughter named Olivia, before dying of a sudden brain aneurysm. Ebony had a relationship with Bob, who was a DJ at the time, and he was considering marrying her before she coldly broke up with him. Ebony had worked well with Desire until her coldness caused rifts, which eventually broke up the band. Before leaving her, the ghost takes Ebony to Terry, Desire's other singer and once close friend, who is now destitute and impoverished due to Ebony having both abandoned her following Marli's death and crushed her financially in a lawsuit regarding the "Desire" name. The ghost confronts Ebony for how she treated Terry over the years and that she should never had abandoned her friend when she needed her.
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