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       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 : 1.43 GiB. =>-Overall bit rate : 2 027 kbps. =>-Movie Runtime : 1h.40m. Video. =>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. =>-Aspect Ratio : 16:9. =>-Resolution : 1 444 x 720. =>-Bit rate : 1 280 kbps. Audio 1 English. =>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC. =>-Channels : 2 channel. =>-Bit Rate : 112 kbps. =>-Maximum bit rate : 187 kbps. Audio 2 English. =>-Codec : Digital Audio Compression AC-3. =>-Channels : 6 channels L R C LFE Ls Rs. =>-Bit Rate : 320 kbps. =>-Bit rate mode : Constant. Audio 3 Italian. =>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC. =>-Channels : 2 channel. =>-Bit Rate : 112 kbps. =>-Maximum bit rate : 139 kbps. Subtitles - Softsubbed : SubRip : MicroDVD. =>-English. =>-Italian. |
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