Description:
Rotten Tomatoes [=>-Scrooged 1988]
TMDb [=>-Scrooged 1988]
Plot.
A darkly comic and surreal contemplation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol,
this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL
funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and
most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his
network's ratings -- even if it means mounting outrageous programs to retain an
audience, such as "Robert Goulet's Cajun Christmas" and Lee Majors in "The Night
the Reindeer Died," with an AK-47-toting Santa. Cross plots his foulest move,
however, for the Christmas holiday, when he will force his office staff to mount a
live production of A Christmas Carol on national television and thus work through
Christmas Eve. Cross's life is turned upside down with visits from three ghosts a
craggy-faced cabbie known as The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen) the
sugar-plum fairy Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane) (who gets her jollies by
bonking Frank across the face with a toaster oven); and, eventually, the caped,
headless Ghost of Christmas Future, who will send Frank sliding into a crematory
oven -- just before he gives the sleazoid one last chance to redeem himself. Along
the way, the spirits carry Frank to scenes from his past, present, and future
(per Scrooge) and impart a glimpse of how he became so thoroughly rotten. The
radiant Karen Allen co-stars as Frank's girlfriend, Claire Phillips, and the film
packs in cameos from countless celebrities -- among them, Mary Lou Retton, John
Houseman, Jamie Farr, and, in a truly grisly and tasteless bit, John Forsythe.
Richard Donner directs, from a script credited to the late Michael O'Donoghue and
Mitch Glazer.
Stars.
=>-Bill Murray : Frank Cross.
=>-Karen Allen : Claire Phillips.
=>-John Forsythe : Lew Hayward.
=>-John Glover : Brice Cummings.
=>-Bobcat Goldthwait : Eliot Loudermilk.
=>-Carol Kane : Ghost of Christmas Present.
Director.
=>-Richard Donner.
Info.
=>-Genre : Comedy : Drama : Fantasy.
=>-Release Date : 1988.
=>-Language : English : Italian.
=>-File Size : 3.72 GiB.
=>-Overall bit rate : 5 276 kbps.
=>-Movie Runtime : 1h.40m.
Video.
=>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
=>-Aspect Ratio : 16:9.
=>-Resolution : 1 920 x 1 080.
=>-Bit rate : 4 343 kbps.
Audio 1 English.
=>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC.
=>-Channels : 2 channel.
=>-Bit Rate : 128 kbps.
=>-Maximum bit rate : 203 kbps.
Audio 2 English.
=>-Codec : Digital Audio Compression AC-3.
=>-Channels : 6 channels L R C LFE Ls Rs.
=>-Bit Rate : 640 kbps.
=>-Bit rate mode : Constant.
Audio 3 Italian.
=>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC.
=>-Channels : 2 channel.
=>-Bit Rate : 128 kbps.
=>-Maximum bit rate : 158 kbps.
Subtitles - Softsubbed : SubRip : MicroDVD.
=>-English.
=>-Italian. |
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