Storyline
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, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), 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.
Directors
Cast
Bobcat Goldthwait, Mary Ellen Trainor, Bill Murray, Wendie Malick, Karen Allen, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Brian Doyle-Murray, Carol Kane, John Houseman, Robert Goulet, Mary Lou Retton, Joel Murray, Buddy Hackett, John Glover, Alfre Woodard, Robert Hammond, Jamie Farr, John Forsythe, John Murray, Logan Ramsey, Mabel King, David Johansen, Susan Isaacs, Anne Ramsey, Nicholas Phillips, Delores Hall, Maria Riva, Sydna Scott, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, Paul Schaffer, Al 'Red Dog' Weber
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Reviews
75
Boston Globe
Scrooged is that rarest of contemporary Hollywood phenomena -- a Christmas movie with Christmas spirit. [23 Nov 1988, p.21]
60
This is not a "good movie" -- in fact, it's a sprawling mess -- but I like it. And I mean that sincerely, you knucklehead.
60
Empire
Murray doing what he does best, if you like that sort of thing.
50
The New York Times
Scrooged works in fits and starts. The mundane demands of the sentimental story keep interrupting what are, essentially, revue sketches, a few of which are hilarious.
38
Neither Scrooged nor Murray, who is front and center throughout, is particularly funny.
