The Little Match Girl is an American television film that is based on the 1845 short story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

[4] The film was developed as a starring vehicle for Keshia Knight Pulliam who plays the title character.

[5] The film used music by composer John Morris, special effects by Dave Gauthier, and cinematography by Kenneth MacMillan.

A photographer captures her on camera selling matches in a condemned housing area owned by the Haywood Dutton and she ends up appearing in the local newspaper in a story written by Joe in which he criticizes his father for evicting poor people from their homes on Christmas Eve.

However, she acknowledged that "the grade-school crowd, who watched it on video-cassette without commercial interruptions, thought it was a winner.