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Scrooged (1988)
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Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
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How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
I've seen this underrated Christmas comedy so many times I can basically sing along to it like a popular holiday song.
I remember watching this in the theater when it first came out and recently watched it for the first time since then on Starz. I felt the same way today as I did back then; some really dark yet funny segments but very flawed by the crow-barred romance with actress Karen Allen. The scenes with the homeless characters were integral to the darkness of the movie and the Murray's interaction with a dead Michael J Pollard is classic. I chuckled at the dig of Trump Tower in that scene. However; a different angle could have been used other than using the completely trite and weighty romance between Murray and Allen to get to those scenes. The Murray character in that movie would NEVER have been with such a cliche nice girl character like Allen. A shallow pursuit of some busty chick who happened to volunteer at the homeless center would have done the trick. David Johansen and Carol Kane steal the scene from Murray who literally chews on the scenery to create a total focus on his character and that is a good thing. The complete immersion of the viewer into Bill Murray needed those breaks. The sappy eighties ending is pretty much a sign of the times and the haircuts and outfits gave me the shudders when I remember them. Very good movie, could have been better, and I suspect that Murray himself undermined what could have been. I do not understand the reviews that focus on the Dickens story. This is NOT a retelling of the Dickens story. This is a story about a TV executive who happens to be making a live extravaganza using the Dickens story as codpiece. Seven stars for what could have been a ten star classic.
One of the worst films that I have seen and the worst Christmas one by a long way.Almost every scene is terrible and ridiculously over the top, to the point that it looks silly. Murray just screams and shouts his way through the entire film. He got away with it in Groundhog Day, as he had a brilliant plot to fall back on and toned it down after a while.There is none of that here. They take an ok Dickens story, fine but not one of his best and make it considerably worse in either version playing out. There is not scene which is either interesting, funny, believable or moving.
Scrooge is not a story that should not be told with slap sick. I do not like slap sick it is form of you hummer that is not funny. It is just mean by nature. I do not know why people I give this movie a 7. It is overrated crap. This is a 4. It is not a 7. This is a classic story that been ruined by slap stick hummer. Slap stick hummer should never have been stared. Let alone put into a classic story. Do not waste your money do not waste your time. Do not see this movie. See A Christmas Carol (1951). Do not see this. See Scrooge (1908). Do not see this. It is awful. See A Christmas Carol (2009). Do not see this movie. This movie is pooh pooh.