Scrooged

Scrooged

1988, PG-13, 101 min. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum.

REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Tue., Dec. 18, 2001

Murray plays a hard-hearted TV executive who visits his past, present, and future Christmases, à la Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and discovers the error of his ways with the help of a large coterie of cameo players.

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Scrooged, Richard Donner, Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum

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