Big Screen Classics: Scrooged (1988)

High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humor - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge.

Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and, finally, a ghoulish seven-foot-headless messenger from the future. [Park Circus]

Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, David Johansen, Carol Kane, Bobcat Goldthwait, Robert Mitchum, Alfre Woodard

Director: Richard Donner

Genre: Comedy

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