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Scrooged
1988
Frank (Bill Murray) is a network TV President and modern-day Scrooge. Always looking out for number one, the stingy, uncaring curmudgeon places everyone else's needs last. But his holiday spirit is about to get a rude awakening when he is visited by three zany ghosts, who force him to re-examine his life. Read more
| Starring | Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, David Johansen |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Scrooged
Frank (Bill Murray) is a network TV President and modern-day Scrooge. Always looking out for number one, the stingy, uncaring curmudgeon places everyone else's needs last. But his holiday spirit is about to get a rude awakening when he is visited by three zany ghosts, who force him to re-examine his life.
| Starring | Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, David Johansen, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, Robert Mitchum, Alfre Woodard, Michael J. Pollard, John Glover, Nicholas Phillips |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins Watch now: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 04 Dec 2000 Watch now: 08 Apr 2009 Production year: 1988 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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For the opening quarter, this is a joyously black Christmas treat with Bill Murray at his sour-faced best as a monstrous TV executive preparing for the festive break by sacking staff, planning a season of violence and ordering mini antlers to be stapled on the heads of mice. However, being an update of A Christmas Carol, it is not long before sentimentality starts seeping in, as Murray is shown what a miserable heel he is by unconventional ghosts John Forsythe, Carol Kane and David Johansen. It's a missed opportunity, but some gags still hit the mark and there's a stream of starry cameos: Robert Mitchum, John Houseman, Buddy Hackett, Lee Majors and Mary Lou Retton.
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In update on the Dickens classic, with Murray as a miserly TV network president who rejoins the human race following... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Humbug!
The worst film I have ever seen! Its the only film that makes you wish that it wasn't christmas every day! Even Santa wouldn't enjoy it! A cold Turkey! A load of old mince pies! I'll stop there.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Christmas Carol for Adults
Its coming to the time of years when most people search out the christmas movies to get into the spirit of things. There are several adaptions of this story out there telling the same story. This film goes for a different telling... bill murrey is a tv exec with no crimbo spirit who gets visited by three ghosts who basically toment him and beat him up for 60 minutes as they take him on a journey through his life.
Bill murrey plays the same character he always plays in films (I swear he can only act one way be it groundhog day or ghostbusters) but if you don't mind bill you should have plenty of fun with this film -
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Scrooged
Frank (Bill Murray) is a network TV President and modern-day Scrooge. Always looking out for number one, the stingy, uncaring curmudgeon places everyone else's needs last. But his holiday spirit is about to get a rude awakening when he is visited by three zany ghosts, who force him to re-examine ...
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