Synopsis
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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Cast
- Bill MurrayFrancis Cross
- Karen AllenClaire Phillips
- John ForsytheLew Hayward
- John GloverBryce Cummings
- Bobcat GoldthwaitEliot Loudermilk
- David JohansenGhost of Christmas Past
- Carol KaneGhost of Christmas Present
- Robert MitchumPreston Rhinelander
- Nicholas PhillipsCalvin Cooley
- Michael J. PollardHerman
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
Scrooged is that rarest of contemporary Hollywood phenomena -- a Christmas movie with Christmas spirit. [23 Nov 1988, p.21] - 60
Washington Post
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
TV Guide Magazine
Neither Scrooged nor Murray, who is front and center throughout, is particularly funny. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
Scrooged is one of the most disquieting, unsettling films to come along in quite some time. It was obviously intended as a comedy, but there is little comic about it, and indeed the movie's overriding emotions seem to be pain and anger. - 25
USA Today
Scrooged is so monumental a mess that even rabid Bill Murray fans - the ones who'll stand in line to see it despite critics' inevitable bashings - will wonder how it went so wrong. [23 Nov 1988, p. 9D] - 20
Washington Post
Irony is the movie's escape hatch. It allows the filmmakers to stage maudlin bits and, at the same time, signal the audience that they're too cool to actually believe in them. Their cool is all-purpose, and it carries with it a note of genuine nastiness. They manipulate us into a sentimental response, then kick us in the teeth for buying it.
