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1988

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A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his network's ratings -- even if it means mounting outrageous programs to retain an audience, such as Robert Goulet's Cajun Christmas and Lee Majors in The Night the Reindeer Died, with an AK-47-toting Santa. Cross plots his foulest move, however, for the Christmas holiday, when he will force his office staff to mount a live production of A Christmas Carol on national television -- and thus work through Christmas Eve. Cross's life is turned upside down with visits from three ghosts: a craggy-faced cabbie known as The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen); the sugar-plum fairy Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) (who gets her jollies by bonking Frank across the face with a toaster oven); and, eventually, the caped, headless Ghost of Christmas Future, who will send Frank sliding into a crematory oven -- just before he gives the sleazoid one last chance to redeem himself. Along the way, the spirits carry Frank to scenes from his past, present, and future (per Scrooge) and impart a glimpse of how he became so thoroughly rotten. The radiant Karen Allen co-stars as Frank's girlfriend, Claire Phillips, and the film packs in cameos from countless celebrities -- among them, Mary Lou Retton, John Houseman, Jamie Farr, and, in a truly grisly and tasteless bit, John Forsythe. Richard Donner directs, from a script credited to the late Michael O'Donoghue and Mitch Glazer.~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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Formats:	PG DVD, 12 Blu-ray
Starring:	Robert Mitchum, Alfre Woodard, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bill Murray, John Forsythe, David Johansen, Carol Kane, John Glover, Karen Allen, Nicholas Phillips, Michael J. Pollard
Director:	Richard Donner
Genre:	Comedy - General
Studio:	PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Collections:	100 Eighties Greats, Top 10 Christmas films

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Scrooged	PG Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 37 minutes
Rental release:	04 Dec 2000
Main languages:	English
Dubbed:	German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian
Subtitles:	Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Hearing impaired subtitles:	English

Name	Discs
Scrooged	12 Feature

Blu-ray Information

Run time:	1 hour 41 minutes
Rental release:	01 Oct 2012
Main languages:	English

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Scrooged/ So Funny!!

By laneyb (262 reviews) from Rochester, Kent , 23 Jan 2011

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As good and funny today as it was when it first came out!!! Love Bill Murray anyway and Carol Kane as the Ghost of Christmas Present is just hilarious.

One for my collection I think!
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Bill has still got it

By open (255 reviews) , 25 Dec 2012

Funnier than expected bill murray is a good presence and the sfx are good considering its the 80s the terrible preachy end lets it down
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want it on watch now :(

By Cathika (2 reviews) from Bathgate , 19 Dec 2012

So sad this is not on watch now, its almost Christmas and I so want to watch it! Netflix has it available for streaming :( well the DVD is only £3 so I've just ordered it ;)
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great even better in HD

By hb360666 (10 reviews) from lincolnshire japan , 17 Dec 2012

love this movie seen it so many times but never in hd - so put the blu-ray in my ps3 sat back with 5. 1 dts hd master audio and loved it amazing what they can do nowadays SUPER FANTASTIC a must see !!
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Think I may have to buy a copy of my own!

By GhostofChristmas80s (4 reviews) from Hengoed , 20 Oct 2012

This film should become one of every household's classic Christmas movies. In a modern(-ish) version of the Christmas favourite 'A Christmas Carol' Bill Murray is fabulous as the cold hearted, synical, Christmas hating Frank Cross but the other casting is pretty smart too (especially the Ghost of Christmas Present - my kids are still miming and quoting her almost a week after the film's gone back).

The film is set in the 80's - and it shows, but the themes and the comedy are timeless. All in all it leaves you with one big warm hug of a feel good factor even down to the music in the final credits.
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brilliant and hilarious

By cheesekake (1312 reviews) from uk , 30 Sep 2012

I have watched this film so many times, and still find it really funny.

The story has been done so many times and not always good, but this one is just brilliant.

the fairy is defo my fav character haha
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