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Scrooged (1988)
The spirits
will move you in odd and hysterical ways.
Director: Richard Donner; rated PG-13 for language
  Starring:
Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert
Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, Alfre Woodard
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★☆☆☆
- good
"Frank,
let me sum this up for you: you don't know who you are, you
don't know what you want,
and you don't know what the hell is
going on!" - Ghost of Christmas Past
Why watch this?
It's a great, modern and very satirical version of the classic
A Christmas Carol.
Plot Summary:
Frank Cross is a cynical and ambitious television executive,
tasked to produce a live Christmas Eve broadcast of A
Christmas Carol. On Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a
series of ghosts, each representing a different Christmas
period, who intend to make him reflect on his life and change
his ways. Through these supernatural encounters, Frank is
confronted with his past mistakes and the emptiness of his
current life.
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Dad's Preview:
This film has grown on me through the years, liking it more
with
each viewing. This version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas
Carol features Bill Murray, who is a
successful, yet cold-hearted company
executive. I particularly enjoy the visiting apparitions: his
old boss, a burly New
York cab driver, a sweet but sadistic fairy, and finally, the grim reaper.
It can be very sweet at times, although Murray's finale speech
is a
little long and over-done. For those worried about animal
safety, I verified that they did not, in fact, staple
little reindeer horns onto the mice. Whew! |
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Mirage
Productions; Paramount Pictures
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