1988 · holiday · satire · bill-murray
Scrooged
Directed by Richard Donner1h 41m1988
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.
Our read: Scrooged (1988) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive holiday · satire · bill-murray entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured holiday / satire, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- redemptive
- funny
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“You want cynical Christmas comedy that goes dark before Bill Murray finds heart.”
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