Scrooged

Scrooged (1988)

  • 66% of critics liked it
    (38 reviews)

  • 67% of users liked it
    (72,906 ratings)

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… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue
Genres
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Nov 23, 1988 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    An appallingly unfunny comedy, and a vivid illustration of the fact that money can't buy you laughs.

  • , Time Out

    Rowdy stuff for the light in head.

  • 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.

  • 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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Featured Audience Ratings

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    "<b>Scrooged</b> is by far one of my favorite Christmas flicks. Yes I know were in Februrary and Christmas has come and gone, but I couldn't resist watching it when I saw it on Netflix streaming. Plus it was about 4 in the morning and I had nothing better to do.… More

  • Anthony L


    It's one of Murray's funnier films and certainly one of the better Christmas movies around (not that that's a hard thing to achieve!) and almost certainly my favourite version of the story.

  • Phil H


    I can't believe this was made in 88! my god that's a long time ago and I remember when it came out haha!. We all know the plot here I should think, the classic Dickens tale revamped and 'modified' for the modern era...well the 80's. Straight of the bat this… More

  • Jacob E


    Charles Dicken's classic has gotten more than a few treatments over the years. I'm willing to be that there's a statistic out there that in some way shape or form, "A Christmas Carol" is the most adapted to television and film novel of all time. There are an… More

  • Melvin W


    Lew Hayward: I don't mind you shooting at me, Frank, but take it easy on the Bacardi. "The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways." Scrooged is at times funny, but not as funny as it needs to be, or as funny as I expected it to be. Still I managed to get a… More

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