Cast: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bob Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Nicholas Phillips, Michael J. Pollard, Alfre Woodard, Mabel King, John Murray, Jamie Farr, Robert Goulet
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Frank's childhood wasn't a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn't really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.
AMAZON.COM REVIEWS FOR SCROOGED (1988): Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times andnot nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoyhis deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, whohas his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. Thevarious ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops atholidays past, present, and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green andAnnie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." The effects areotherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgyportrayal. --Marshall Fine
:
- Academy Awards, USA
1989
Nominated
Oscar
Best Makeup
Thomas R. Burman
Bari Dreiband-Burman
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
1990
Nominated
Saturn Award
Best Actor
Bill Murray
Best Fantasy Film
Best Special Effects
Eric Brevig
Allen Hall
- BMI Film & TV Awards
1989
Won
BMI Film Music Award
Danny Elfman
