Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard.
Plot
IBC Television executive Frank Cross is pushing his company to broadcast an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve, making the staff work throughout the holiday. Frank fires executive Eliot Loudermilk for disagreeing with him, and sends cheap IBC-monogrammed towels to most of the people on his Christmas list, including his personal assistant Grace and his brother James, while the powerful and influential people on his list get an expensive four-head hi-fi stereo VCR. Seeing the stress Frank is under with the production, Frank's boss Preston Rhinelander brings in consultant Brice Cummings to provide assistance, though Brice secretly wants Frank's job.
Cast
- Alfre Woodard
- Amy Hill
- Anne Ramsey
- Bill Hart
- Bill Murray
- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Brian Doyle-Murray
- Bruce Jarchow
- Buddy Hackett
- Carol Kane
- David Johansen
- J. Mills Goodloe
- Jack McGee
- Jamie Farr
- Jean Speegle Howard
- Joel Murray
- John Forsythe
- John Glover
- John Houseman
- John Murray
- Karen Allen
- Kathy Kinney
- Lee Majors
- Mabel King
- Maria Riva
- Mary Ellen Trainor
- Mary Lou Retton
- Michael J. Pollard
- Mitch Glazer
- Pat McCormick
- Peter Onorati
- Robert Goulet
- Robert Mitchum
- Roy Brocksmith
- Steve Kahan
- Wendie Malick
More details
| author | Michael O'Donoghue Mitch Glazer |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Richard Donner |
| editor | Fredric Steinkamp William Steinkamp |
| events | careerism Christmas egoism empathy love for fellow humans show business upward social mobility |
| genre | comedy fantasy |
| keywords | a christmas carol break cast and crew christmas carol christmas eve control room cumming death end first time frozen to death ghost of christmas future ghost of christmas past ghost of christmas present ghost of christmas yet to come grim reaper group of friends heart attack homeless man homeless shelter large family live broadcast lost love personal assistant put a little love in your heart seven years sing taxi driver the king time off vcr wait |
| musicBy | Danny Elfman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling |
| producer | Art Linson |
| productionCompany | Mirage Productions |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | New York City Toronto |
| theme | ghost romantic comedy |