Scrooged

1988 "The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways."
6.9| 1h41m| PG-13| en
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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.

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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Matt Greene I've seen this underrated Christmas comedy so many times I can basically sing along to it like a popular holiday song.
TownRootGuy Murray's non-comedies pretty much suck reindeer butt. This, however, is a comedy. Scrooged has some very nice FX, some solid-gold eye candy AND it will jingle your bells - especially about the time Kane jingles Murray's with her foot. This is a must see for Murray fans, i.e. everybody. Everybody! Lest ye, too, be wanting a visit from Kane. This flick is good for a 2 - 3 year schedule of re-watching.
leplatypus this new watching left me disappointed while in my memories, it was a good moment: i'm sure that the lack of subtitles put me in pain but anyway this time i found the movie really dark, oppressive and not really funny in spite of being a Christmas tale! The past work of Dickens is a gloom reading, the future work of Zemeckis won't be lighter... In addition, if Murray has a few good lines, 99% of his time is being a really cold, totally acid, egocentric TV producer and that hurts! So it's not like having Christmas with cool Venkman but with the sad Connors...Sure the end of this tale warms the heart but the way to get there is as painful as a cold, dark winter night...
Christmas-Reviewer BEWARE OF BOGUS REVIEWS. SOME REVIEWERS HAVE ONLY ONE REVIEW TO THEIR NAME. NOW WHEN ITS A POSITIVE REVIEW THAT TELLS ME THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE MOVIE. IF ITS A NEGATIVE REVIEW THEN THEY MIGHT HAVE A GRUDGE AGAINST THE FILM . NOW I HAVE REVIEWED OVER 200 HOLIDAY FILMS. I HAVE NO AGENDA. I AM VERY HONEST ABOUT THESE FILMS.Another spin on the Charles Dickens tale this time set in the world of American Network Television. By updating the story (To then present day New YorK) also stripped away the heart and since of innocence to the beloved novel. In this version Bill Murray plays the Scrooge but here his name is Frank Cross a Network Television President. Franks idea of Christmas programming is basically putting the Manson Family on Television if it will get ratings. Of course he learns to take in the joy of the season by the end of the movie but the film makers themselves failed to infuse the story of heart. This film is a tad better than the HALLMARK Christmas MOVIES but that is because David Johansen steels every scene away from Bill Murray. Please if you want to see a great Version of "A Christmas Carol" see the 1938 Version produced by MGM. It set the standard