Scrooged
1988, PG-13, 101 min.
D: Richard Donner; with Bill Murray.
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.
This article appears in December 14 • 2001.
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