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Scrooged |
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Genre
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Comedy,
Black Comedy,
Satire,
Fantasy Comedy.
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Year
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1988 |
Director
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Richard Donner.
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Actors
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Bill Murray,
Karen Allen,
John Forsythe,
John Glover,
Bobcat Goldthwait,
Carol Kane,
David Johansen,
Robert Mitchum,
Nicholas Phillips,
Michael J. Pollard,
Alfre Woodard,
Mabel King,
John Murray,
Jamie Farr,
Buddy Hackett,
John Houseman,
Brian Doyle-Murray,
Mary Lou Retton,
Selma Archerd,
Rebeca Arthur,
Susan Barnes,
Dick Blasucci,
Roy Brocksmith,
Peter Bromilow,
Henry Brown,
Ralph Bruneau,
Jay Byron,
Larry Carlton,
June Chandler,
Miles Davis,
Harvey Fisher,
Cal Gibson,
Mitch Glazer,
Stella Hall,
Delores Hall,
Alvin Hammer,
Raphael Harris,
Bill Hart,
Amy Hill,
Damon Hines,
Jean Speegle Howard,
Susan Isaacs,
Jeanine Jackson,
Bruce Jarchow,
Sanford Jensen,
Jeffrey Joseph,
Stephen Kahan,
Regina King,
Kathy Kinney,
Jennie Lew Tugend,
Wendie Malick,
Bill Marcus,
Pat McCormick,
Dick McGarvin,
Jack McGee,
Kate McGregor-Stewart,
Lisa Mende,
Joel Murray,
Michael O'Donoghue,
Peter Onorati,
Sachi Parker,
Anne Ramsey,
Logan Ramsey,
Maria Riva,
David Sanborn,
Gilles Savard,
Paul Shaffer,
Tony Steedman,
Ryan Todd,
Mary Ellen Trainor,
Paul Tuerpé,
Lester Wilson,
Norm Wilson.
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File
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Runtime: |
101:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip |
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1402.88 Mb |
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Storyline:
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. |
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