---
title: 'Scrooged (1988)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Richard Donner'
released: '1988-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/scrooged-1988'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096061/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Scrooged (1988)

1988 · 102 min · Fantasy, Comedy, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy black comedy film directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Inspired by Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, the film is a metafictional 20th century retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who, while prepping for a live broadcast adaptation of A Christmas Carol, is visited on Christmas Eve by a succession of ghosts intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The supporting cast includes Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Richard Donner](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-donner)
- **Producer:** [Richard Donner](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-donner), [Art Linson](https://cinepixo.com/people/art-linson)
- **Editor:** [Fredric Steinkamp](https://cinepixo.com/people/fredric-steinkamp)
- **Screenplay:** [Michael O'Donoghue](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-o-donoghue), [Mitch Glazer](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitch-glazer)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Danny Elfman](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-elfman)

## Cast

- [Jean Speegle Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-speegle-howard)
- [Kathy Kinney](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathy-kinney)
- [Amy Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/amy-hill)
- [John Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-murray)
- [Robert Goulet](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-goulet)
- [Mary Ellen Trainor](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-ellen-trainor)
- [Robert Mitchum](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mitchum)
- [Steve Kahan](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-kahan)
- [J. Mills Goodloe](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-mills-goodloe)
- [John Glover](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-glover)
- [Joel Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/joel-murray)
- [Bill Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-murray)
- [Bill Hart](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-hart)
- [Carol Kane](https://cinepixo.com/people/carol-kane)
- [Pat McCormick](https://cinepixo.com/people/pat-mccormick)

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