Scrooged [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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FilmPublisher number: 32054 | ParamountLanguage: English, French Summary language: English Original language: English Series: Widescreen DVD collectionPublication details: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video, 1999, c1988.Edition: [Widescreen version]Description: 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792159454
- Producers, Richard Donner and Art Linson ; director, Richard Donner ; writers, Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A darkly comic and surreal contemporization 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. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Special features include theatrical trailer.
Videodisc release of the 1988 motion picture.
Producers, Richard Donner and Art Linson ; director, Richard Donner ; writers, Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue.
Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, Alfre Woodard.
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
Rated PG-13.
DVD; Dolby digital; 5.1 or Dolby surround; enhanced widescreen version.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
In English with optional French soundtrack.