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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens , Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him ...
Nov 23, 1988 · Scrooged: Directed by Richard Donner. With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover. A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Richard Donner
- 1988-11-23
- There’s a whole other version of the film somewhere. According to Bill Murray, after he rewrote the script then improvised his way through the shoot, he and director Richard Donner were left with more footage than they knew what to do with: “We shot a big, long sloppy movie, so there’s a great deal of material that didn’t even end up in the film.”
- All Bill Murray’s actor brothers make cameos. Of Murray’s eight siblings, three grew up to be actors. All three – John Murray, Joel Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray – make cameos in Scrooged, with Brian playing Frank’s father Earl and John playing Frank’s brother.
- The film convinced New York Dolls’ Arthur Kane to attempt suicide. Bassist Arthur Kane took the splitting-up of his band the New York Dolls badly. Things got so bad for Kane that, when he found himself watching Scrooged one night and saw the Dolls’ frontman David Johansen had moved on to bag a starring role, he attempted suicide by jumping out of his apartment window.
- The ‘starving musicians’ are actually all music legends. Those ‘starving musicians’ aren’t in fact comprised of some true industry greats. They are legendary session musician Larry Carlton, sax man David Sanborn, jazz icon Miles Davis and David Letterman’s old band leader buddy Paul Shaffer.
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.
Dec 5, 2018 · The Scrooged stars on improvising with Bill Murray, “the ball-breaker suite,” and the meaning behind the classic Christmas film. ... came to watch me dance. Michael died very young; he was a ...
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