Scrooged Movie Review
Scrooged Review
"Scrooged" Overview
Rating: PG-13
1988
Cast and Crew
Director : Richard DonnerProducer : Richard Donner,Art Linson
Screenwiter : Mitch Glazer,Michael O'Donoghue
Starring : Bill Murray,Karen Allen,John Forsythe,John Glover,Bob Goldthwait,David Johansen,Carol Kane,Robert Mitchum
Treatments of A Christmas Carol don't get much more quirky -- or memorable -- than this 1988 adaptation of the Dickens classic, done with no attempt to maintain respect for the stuffy source material. As a Scrooge-like TV producer (producing a live adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim), Bill Murray doesn't even come close to stealing the show from a host of characters who do: Bob Goldthwait as a gun-toting Cratchitt type, Carol Kane as a memorably pugilistic ghost of Christmas present, and many more. Not quite a "classic," but a roaring good time.
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Review by Christopher Null 
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