- Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait
- Directors: Richard Donner
- Writers: Charles Dickens, Michael O'Donoghue, Mitch Glazer
- Producers: Art Linson, Jennie Lew Tugend, Peter Frankfurt, Raymond Hartwick
- Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound, Colour, HiFi Sound
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Paramount
- VHS Release Date: 3 Sep 2001
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005BJAR
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,481 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you are a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green and Annie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart". The effects are otherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as Murray's edgy portrayal. --Marshall Fine
From the Back Cover
High-spirited high-jinks on Christmas Eve puts Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humour - perfect qualities for a modern day Scrooge.
Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future.
This loosely adapted contemporary version of Dickens' classic is "a side splitting comedy smash..." (Peter Travers, People Magazine).
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I was horrified to see Scrooged on amazon with only a 3 star rating, so I clicked on the item to check out what the reviewers had said. Unfortunately the overall rating had been pulled down dramatically by the rather grumpy review by what appears to be a genuine real life scrooge. This film is great. Bill Murry plays the part of a modern day scrooge beautifully with his deadpan humour and classic role of progressive personality transformation. The film can't take much credit for the overall storyline, but compared to the many other rather boring and overdone rewrites of the classic, this one stands at the top for its clever adaption and extremely comical approach. At the end of the day it wasn't trying to do justice to the original story, but create a funny, feel good movie that comes with the brilliant undertones and moral principles that Dickens was trying to convey, in a modern day setting with a great cast and hillarious script. I watch this film every time its on TV at Christmas and it always puts you in a great mood and into the Christmas spirit. Scrooged is definately in there with the all time classic Christmas movies, love it!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
my favourite xmas film , every year it comes out and sits by my dvd player,
bill murray plays mr cross, a cruel man who hates everything !
3 ghosts of xmas come to visit , laugh out loud funny , realises that hes a bad man , changes his ways and has a happy ending !
a must for your xmas collection .
bill murray plays mr cross, a cruel man who hates everything !
3 ghosts of xmas come to visit , laugh out loud funny , realises that hes a bad man , changes his ways and has a happy ending !
a must for your xmas collection .
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I just can't fault Bill Murray in this film...
His interaction with all the other characters is top notch, whether he's bing the meanie by firing Elliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwaite) on Christmas eve or getting 12 bells knocked out of him by the fairy-like Ghost of Christmas Present.
If you havn't seen this film, I suggest you get yourself a copy today, stick it on and sit through the whole thing eating that tin of Quality Street you'd bought for someone else but you know that the green triangles have been playing on your mind, havn't they?
Get into the Frank Xaviar Cross style of Christmas spirit!
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Scrooged - finally on Blu-ray and will work on Region 2/B players!
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Christmas Fav
Loved this film lots of fun and a good film to put on at christmas time after a hard days christmas shopping
Published 5 months ago by markfamily
Love it!!
I absolutely love love love this film!! I am not completely satisfied at christmas until i watch this film!! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Melzy
The best Christmas movie ever made!
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a true classic
yes ok it's a story thats been done over and over, some are bad and some are good, this one is the classic of them all for me. Read more
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