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Title: Scrooged (1988)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bill Murray | ... | Frank Cross | |
| Karen Allen | ... | Claire Phillips | |
| John Forsythe | ... | Lew Hayward | |
| John Glover | ... | Brice Cummings | |
| Bobcat Goldthwait | ... | Eliot Loudermilk | |
| David Johansen | ... | Ghost of Christmas Past | |
| Carol Kane | ... | Ghost of Christmas Present | |
| Robert Mitchum | ... | Preston Rhinelander | |
| Nicholas Phillips | ... | Calvin Cooley | |
| Michael J. Pollard | ... | Herman | |
| Alfre Woodard | ... | Grace Cooley | |
| Mabel King | ... | Gramma | |
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John Murray | ... | James Cross |
| Jamie Farr | ... | Jacob Marley | |
| Robert Goulet | ... | Robert Goulet | |
Francis Xavier Cross is a cynical, mean spirited television executive, he treats his loyal assistant with contempt. He just sacked a member of staff on Christmas Eve for simply disagreeing with him, and he's alienated himself from his brother who still insists on inviting Frank to Christmas dinner despite him refusing to go every year. However, Frank is forced to learn the true meaning of Christmas when he's visited by three ghosts. Written by Iantjambo
...not quite , but his performance in Scrooged isnt far behind omnipitancy. With exception to Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, this is probably one of his most hilarious performances to date. In this re-working of Dickens "A Christmas Carol" , Murray plays Frank Cross, a tight fisted,selfish Network Executive who, as christmas rapidly approaches, finds himself needing to hasten up proceedings on his networks live Christmas Carol show, which is airing on Christmas eve. From the very start of the film, we are treated to how unkind and selfish, Murrays character really is, yet we still cant bring ourselves to hate him.....even when he suggests to a prop man that he should STAPLE little plastic antlers to the heads of door-mice.
Due to a very creepy encounter with his dead boss, Cross is warned that he will be visited by 3 ghosts, and so the story takes off, as he meets 3 very unusual ghosts with even weirder traits, such as the ghost of christmas present, who likes to randomly beat Cross up, every time he shows no heart. Best of all is the NOO YAWK talkin taxi driver, who i feel almost steals the show from Murray ....which is one of the hardest things in the world!!!
Running throughout the film, is, ...sadly, a rather weak sub plot of Cross and his ex-lover, which , i love for all the wrong reasons.....but sadly, to people who have never seen the film, might find a bit tedious.
But of course....its Murray who comes away from this looking cool, as , even though he has experienced some genuinely scary things ( the halucination of a waiter on fire is still creepy), we lap up his dead pan reactions to it all!!