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Scrooged (1988)
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Most critics couldn't get behind Bill Murray's modern retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, finding it too unfocused at times and not nearly wicked enough. Still, if you're a Murray fan, you have to enjoy his deliciously nasty portrayal of the world's meanest TV executive, who has his cathartic moment one cold Christmas night in New York City. The various ghosts lead him on a ghost-town tour of Manhattan, with stops at holidays past, present, and future and a Kumbaya moment when Al Green and Annie Lennox sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart." The effects are otherworldly, but one wishes the writing were as sharp as...
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Scrooged Movie Review by Tim  (12/16/2007) |
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Favorite Movie Quote from : Scrooged
Herman: Boy that Dick sure knows how to drink huh?
Frank Cross: Why do you keep calling me "Dick"?
Herman: I'm sorry Mr. Burton, but I guess we don't know you well enough yet, to call you Dick.
Don't get me wrong Scrooged is a wonderful adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. I...
(complete Scrooged review by Tim)
| Scrooged Movie Review by Zara (4/8/2007) |
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Yet another version of Dickens' CHRISTMAS CAROL, I found myself identifying with this one more than any of the others that I'd seen.
Bill Murray playing a ruthless television executive who gets put in Scrooge's footsteps and finds out what Christmas was like in the past, present and future means more to me than some slave...
(complete Scrooged review by Zara)
I know what you are saying, "Another version of Charles Dickens!" But this one has Bill Murray and he is funny. Even if you have seen several versions of this classic, you have to see the one with Murray. It'll be the one you watch every year.
Murray plays Frank Cross, a grouchy television exec who's obsessed with putting...
(complete Scrooged review by Movie Addict)
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