You know, it's funny how this movie about an evil, cynical, soulless entertainment executive Learning The Error Of His Ways ends up feeling like something made by evil, cynical, soulless entertainment executives who haven't actually learned shit. It's just a lot of slapstick with some Heartwarming tacked onto the end, and I for one don't really see the appeal.
Scrooged will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Digital) on November 7 via Paramount. The 1988 comedic adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
Richard Donner (The Goonies, The Omen) directs from a script by Mitch Glazer (The Recruit) and Michael O'Donoghue (Saturday Night Live). Bill Murray stars with Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard.
Scrooged has been newly remastered in 4K and features nearly an hour of previously unreleased extras. Special features are detailed below.
Special features:
Audio commentary by director Richard Donner
A Christmas to Remember
Updating Ebenezer
Bringing the Ghosts to Life
The Look of Scrooged
On the Set with Bill Murray
ShoWest Clips with Bill Murray
Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a modern-day “Scrooge” – a mean, nasty, uncaring, and unforgiving TV exec ready to unleash a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol around the world. But, before the night is over, he’ll be visited by his dead-as-a-doornail boss (John Forsythe), a maniacal cab driver from the past (David Johansen), a present-day fairy packing punches (Carol Kane), and a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future.
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Scrooged is an American Christmas fantasy 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, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit.
Since its release in the 1980′s, Scrooged has become a regular television Christmastime feature, with some critics calling it an alternative to traditional Christmas films, and others arguing that Scrooged was ahead of its time, making it relevant in the modern day. It has appeared on various lists of the best Christmas films.
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