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Summary: Repent! Avoid the Rush.
Review: I never tire of watching Scrooged. I have seen it before the holidays and the 4th of July. It never fails to make me laugh and I always get the tears and the lump (yes you, Lumpy) in my throat.It is Bill Murray at his best and the cameos are priceless. Look for Kathy Kinney from the Drew Carey Show in an early role. Bobcat Goldthwaite in the lesser but no less essential role of Elliott Loudermilk (Bob Cratchet). One of Anne Ramsey's last screen appearances. God I love this movie! If this film doesn't move you then maybe YOU need a little visitation. Have your ghost call my ghost and I'll see when I can fit you in.
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Summary: What a cool new spin on the classic story!
Review: Bill Murray shines in this new holiday classic! Cameos by tons of stars keep this old story fresh and entertaining for the holidays year after year. Keep this as one film the family sits down to watch while gift-wrapping on those cool winter evenings!
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Summary: If you don't rent this movie for Christmas it won't be merry
Review: Great one of the best (if not the best) Christmas movies ever. A humourous take on the Charles Dickens classic with great special effects. If you don't get this movie for Christmas it won't be as merry.
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Summary: Underated Classic
Review: Like gifted screenwriter Mitch Glazer's "Great Expectations" (Glazer collaborated with friend Michael O'Donoghue On "Scrooged"), this is a brilliant-and sadly necessary-social parable of modern greed and crassness that Dickens would have adored.
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Summary: Everyone should watch this movie around Christmas
Review: It is simply a hilarious movie. The only people who may not like this movie are people that don't like Bill Murray. Otherwise, this and Groundhog Day are his best. My friends and I quote Scrooged all the time. My favorite quote, "All day long I have to listen to excuses why people can't work. My back aches. My legs hurt. I'm only 4." Priceless.
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Summary: If you are not singing at the end, you don't have a soul
Review: This must be one of the best Christmas movies I have ever seen, and one of the better adaptations of Dickin's classic tale. No Christmas collection should be without this modern classic. And if you are not in a Christmas mood at the end of the movie, you must have gotten a lot of coal for Christmas.
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Summary: Bill Murray's Best
Review: This must be Bill Murray's best movie, the funniest for sure. Each Christmas I rewatch it a couple of times. I can't wait to get it on DVD this November. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A must-view for Christmastime!
Review: This updated version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a must-see at Christmastime...right alongside "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." The yucks are funny year after year and remain contemporary each and every time. The cameos in this movie, especially by John Forsythe and Carole Kane, will keep you in stitches...promise!
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Summary: Bill Murray is hilarious in this remake of the classic story
Review: Bill Murray is a ruthless TV executive who is visited by spirits on Christmas Eve to show him the err of his ways -- highlight is Carol Kane (from Taxi) as the spirit of Christmas Present. Alfre Woodard is terrific as the 80s version of Bob Cratchit, and Bobcat Goldthwait fall-down funny as an ousted employee out for revenge. Many sweet moments, some good slapstick, a bit of adult language, and the solid gold dancers as extras in the live Christmas Eve broadcast of Scrooge...and to top it off, America's sweetheart of the 80s, Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim!
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Summary: "What about my bonus?" "Towel or a facecloth?"
Review: In 1988, Richard Donner (who directed the 1976 horror film "The Omen", the 1978 film "Superman" and all four "Lethal Weapon" films between 1987 and 1998) directed the hilarious film "Scrooged", which is a modernized remake of the classic Charles Dickens' short story "A Christmas Carol". The film stars the well-known actor/comedian Bill Murray as Francis 'Frank' Xavier Cross, the "Ebenezer Scrooge" character of the film. Frank is a high-rolling, power-hungry, penny-pinching TV executive who decides to produce a live version of the classic "A Christmas Carol" on his TV station on Christmas Eve. His secretary, Grace Cooley (Alfre Woodard), is the "Bob Cratchit" of the story. With several children to raise, including her seemingly autistic son Calvin (Nicholas Phillips)--the "Tiny Tim" of the story, Grace has no choice but to begrudgingly work for Frank underpaid and under appreciated. When Frank's boss, Preston Rhinelander (Robert Mitchum, 1917-1997), decides that Frank needs as assistant, the brown-nosing Bryce Cummings (John Glover), Frank becomes extremely jealous; but Frank's problems are only beginning when the ghost of a former coworker, Lou Hayward (John Forsythe), pays him a visit. There are many memorable scenes in the film including Frank reliving part of his childhood with the taxi-driving Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Frank reliving meeting his former girlfriend Claire Phillips (Karen Allen) who works in a homeless shelter, Frank seeing his brother James Cross (played by Bill Murray's actual brother, John Murray) and his family celebrating Christmas with the hilarious Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane), Frank being terrorized by a fired employee Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), Frank meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future (Chaz Conner, Jr.), Frank thinking that a waiter is on fire, the various accidents that the TV censor (Kate McGregor-Stewart) endures, and the ending scenes. Several cameo appearances include Jamie Farr, Robert Goulet, Buddy Hackett, John Houseman, Lee Majors, Pat McCormick and Mary Lou Retton (who Frank wants to portray his TV "Tiny Tim"). There is no way to know whether Charles Dickens (1812-1870) would like this modern remake of his classic story, but I believe that he would love the fact that his story remains just as powerful, entertaining and inspiring today as it was when it was first published in 1843. Overall, I rate "Scrooged" with 5 out of 5 stars for its superb use of poetic license, great humor, engaging plot and wonderful dialog. It has become a Yuletide classic itself that I never tire of watching each year.
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