Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it is a modern retelling that follows a television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard and Alfre Woodard.
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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, it is a modern retelling that follows a television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard and Alfre Woodard. It was released on November 23, 1988 and grossed over USD 100 million worldwide. It received a positive response from test audiences but was met with a mixed response on its release, by critics who found the film too mean spirited, or too sentimental. It has become a regular television Christmas time feature, with some critics calling it an alternative to traditional Christmas films, and others arguing that Scrooging was ahead of its time, making it relevant in the modern day. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, but lost to the fantasy-comedy film Beetlejuice. The marketing capitalized on Bill Murray’s Ghostbusters role, referencing his encounters with ghosts in both films. The production was tumultuous, as Murray and Donner had different visions for the film, and Murray described his time on the film as \”misery\”, while Donner called Murray \”superbly creative but occasionally difficult\”.
Along with Murray’s three brothers, Brian, John, and Joel, Scooged features numerous celebrity cameos. It also stars numerous celebrity Cameos, such as BobcatGoldthwait and Bobbi Kristina Goldthwaite, and was filmed on a USD 32 million budget over three months in Hollywood. It is one of the few Christmas films to feature Bill Murray as the main character. The other two are The Aristocrats and The Nutcracker and the Coen Brothers’ The Great and The Last Song. The third film in the series was released in 1998. The fourth and final installment of the series, The Grinch, is scheduled for release on December 25, 2008. The fifth and final film, The Secret of Santa Claus, is released on December 26, 2008, and the final film of the Christmas series is The Secret Of Santa Claus and the Grinch and the Frosty the Snowman, released on January 1, 2009. The final film in this series of films is The Grisly Secret of Christmas, which opens on December 28, 2009, and ends on December 31, 2009 with a cliffhanging cliffhanger. The last film of this series is the Christmas Special, which opened on December 30, 2010, in which Frank Cross is haunted by the ghosts of his dead mentor Lew Hayward and his ex-wife Claire Phillips. The sixth and final movie in the trilogy is The Christmas Carol, released in 2010, and features Frank as the lead character in a live production of A ChristmasCarol.
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