Scrooged

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael ODonoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman.

Frank Cross Bill Murray is a successful but cynical television programming executive for the IBC network headquartered in New York City. He has demanded the network put on an extravagant live production of A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve to seize the ratings opportunity, forcing the networks staff including his direct assistant Grace Cooley Alfre Woodard to work on the holiday. When some of his decisions are questioned, he fires timid yesman Eliot Loudermilk Bobcat Goldthwait on the spot. Franks boss Preston Rhinelander Robert Mitchum takes the liberty of hiring an assistant for Frank, Brice Cummings John Glover, who is transparently after Franks job. Hours before the show is set to start, Frank is alone in his office when he is visited by the ghost of his mentor Lew Hayward John Forsythe, who warns him of the errors of his ways and that three ghosts will visit him over the course of the night. Before he leaves, Lew causes Franks phone to call Claire Phillips Karen Allen, Franks true love whom he had foregone when he became a television executive. Claire comes to visit Frank, but finds him too busy with preparations for the show, so she leaves him the address of the homeless shelter where she works.Frank encounters the Ghost of Christmas Past David Johansen, who appears as a taxi driver. The Ghost takes him back to his past to see how his love of television came from the disinterested nature of his parents, and his father Brian Doyle Murray, a meatpacking foreman who denounces those who do not work as lazy slobs, is essentially a bluecollar version of Franks adult self. The Ghost then takes Frank forward to see himself as a young man, showing how he had met Claire and the highlights of their relationship before Franks executive job, showing Frank that he has let his success overwhelm his life. Once returned to the present, Frank goes to the homeless shelter to apologize to Claire, though he still turns bitter when they are interrupted by other workers asking Cla

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