Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced.
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Variety Staff, Variety
An appallingly unfunny comedy, and a vivid illustration of the fact that money can't buy you laughs.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
In spite of the jokes at the expense of television-network censors, there's very little in the film, aside from naughty words, that wouldn't be perfectly acceptable on prime-time television.
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Joe Brown, Washington Post
This is not a 'good movie' -- in fact, it's a sprawling mess -- but I like it.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It was obviously intended as a comedy, but there is little comic about it, and indeed the movie's overriding emotions seem to be pain and anger.
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Cast
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Bill Murrayas Frank Cross -
Karen Allenas Claire Phillips -
John Forsytheas Lew Hayward
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John Gloveras Brice Cummings -
Bobcat Goldthwaitas Eliot Loudermilk -
Carol Kaneas Ghost of Christmas Present
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