Scrooged

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Christmas film dark comedy film fantasy comedy film film

Scrooged is a 1988 dark comedy film that modernizes Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," starring Bill Murray as a cynical television executive who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Statements (51)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Christmas film →
dark comedy film →
fantasy comedy film →
film →
basedOn A Christmas Carol (novella) →
surface form: "A Christmas Carol"
basedOnWorkAuthor Charles Dickens →
castMember Alfre Woodard →
Bill Murray →
Bobcat Goldthwait →
Carol Kane →
David Johansen →
John Forsythe →
John Glover →
Karen Allen →
Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED →
character Claire Phillips →
Eliot Loudermilk →
Frank Cross →
A Christmas Carol (novella) →
surface form: "Ghost of Christmas Future"

A Christmas Carol (novella) →
surface form: "Ghost of Christmas Past"

A Christmas Carol (novella) →
surface form: "Ghost of Christmas Present"

Grace Cooley →
Lew Hayward →
cinematographyBy Michael Chapman →
countryOfOrigin United States of America →
surface form: "United States"
director Richard Donner →
distributor Paramount Pictures →
editedBy Fredric Steinkamp NERFINISHED →
William Steinkamp NERFINISHED →
genre Christmas film →
comedy film →
fantasy film →
satire →
leadActor Bill Murray →
mainCharacterOccupation television executive →
mainSetting New York City →
musicBy Danny Elfman →
narrativeTheme critique of commercialism →
redemption →
originalLanguage English →
producer Art Linson →
Richard Donner →
productionCompany Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED →
releaseDate 1988-11-23 →
releaseYear 1988 →
runningTimeMinutes 101 →
screenwriter Michael O’Donoghue →
Mitch Glazer →
setDuring Christmas Eve →
setInTime 1980s →
title Scrooged →
Referenced by (6)

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Bill Murray → notableWork → Scrooged →
John Murray → notableWork → Scrooged →
Joel Murray → participatedIn → Scrooged →
Scrooged → title → Scrooged →
Jean Speegle Howard → workedOn → Scrooged →
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