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SCROOGED is a head-on crash of two family faves, A Christmas Carol and Ghostbusters, neither one quite winning out. Some early SNL folk worked on it -- Bill Murray most obviously, but also writer Michael O'Donahue, whose style of humor was often brutally dark. It's a strange, mood-swingy blend of mistletoe and graveyard mold that doesn't hang ...
Scrooged - Apple TV. Available on Pluto TV, Paramount+, Prime Video, iTunes. Frank Cross is a mean TV executive with perfect qualities of a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he’ll be visited by three ghosts from the past, present and future. Holiday 1988 1 hr 41 min.
Permalink. Scrooged (1988): Dir: Richard Donner / Cast: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bob Goldthwait, John Forsythe, Carol Kane: A parody of the Charles Dickens classic with a modern take on the tale. Bill Murray plays Frank Cross, a cynical program executive who is the modern day Scrooge.
Niagara Falls. A 1988 comedy film directed by Richard Donner and starring Bill Murray, Scrooged is a moderately loose modern-day retelling of A Christmas Carol, with the twist of taking place In a World… where everyone is already familiar with Dickens's tale. Murray plays Frank Cross, a cynical, selfish network executive who's putting ...
Synopsis. The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways. In this modern take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member ...
Frank Cross is a mean TV executive with perfect qualities of a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he’ll be visited by three ghosts from the past, present and future. IMDb 6.9 1 h 37 min 1988. PG-13. Comedy · Drama · Dark · Fantastic. This video is currently unavailable.
Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 short novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by three spirits (the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) has become a defining tale of the ...
