Mrs Harris is a 2006 television film, starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley, directed by Phyllis Nagy.

It is based on a sensational 1980 media event, in which famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower, author of The Scarsdale Diet, met a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.

The film, Bening, Kingsley and supporting actresses Cloris Leachman and Ellen Burstyn all received Emmy nominations. The nomination of Burstyn, who appears on screen for less than 15 seconds and speaks just 38 words, led to significant controversy about the validity of the Emmy nomination process. blank">http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,19723,00.html

Kingsley and Bening have also been nominated for acting awards at the _64th Golden Globe Awards.

The story was also the subject of a fictional musical for which Kramer received a Tony on Seinfeld. The name of the musical was "Scarsdale Surprise."

Fact-based story about Jean Harris (Annette Bening), a woman who was accused of murdering famed Scarsdale Diet Dr. Herman (Hi) Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) after being in a relationship with him for 14 years. Depicted as a womanizer, Dr. Tarnower had earlier asked Mrs. Harris, a divorced school teacher, to marry him. But when faced with upcoming nuptials, he backed out. The story depicts Mrs. Harris as a distraught and obsessive woman who may have been suffering from some mental illness and based on a note sent to the doctor, may have been suicidal at the time of the murder. She contended that Dr. Tarnower was shot while the two wrestled with a gun she was going to use to kill herself. Contains profanity and sexual situations, including implied masturbation. Written by John Sacksteder