Bill Murray
Francis Xavier Cross
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Nov 23, 1988 · Scrooged: Directed by Richard Donner. With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover. A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
- (109K)
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Richard Donner
- 1988-11-23
Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit.
- $32 million
- Danny Elfman
- November 23, 1988
- Richard Donner, Art Linson
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Nov 23, 2018 · ‘Scrooged’ Is Still the Perfect Christmas Movie 30 Years Later. It’s loud, cartoonish, and misanthropic, but the 1988 Bill Murray vehicle is remarkably well-suited for our fraught present moment....
Dec 11, 2018 · “Scrooged,” written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue and directed by Richard Donner, exemplifies the kind of lazily executed comedies Mr. Murray seems always to make.
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