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Scrooged

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…

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Based on
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Box office
$100.3 million
Budget
$32 million
Cinematography
Michael Chapman
Country
United States
Directed by
Richard Donner

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Scrooged

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Edges110
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Avg. degree1.98
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related to Home media · 28
Scrooged → Although Paramount, Bill Murray, Blu-ray, Bringing, Christmas, Collider's Phil Brown, Donner, DTS HD Master Audio, DVD, Ghosts, In August, Laserdisc, Life, Murray's, November, October, On, Paramount Home Entertainment, Remember, September
related to Soundtrack · 21
Scrooged → Al Green, Annie Lennox, Chestnuts Roasting, Christmas Must Be Tonight, December, In, January, Little Love, October, Open Fire, Orient Are, Put, Records, Seven, Sweetest Thing, The, The Christmas Song, The Love You Take, We Three Kings, Wonderful Life
related to Critical response · 16
Scrooged → Audiences, Brown, CinemaScore, Dickens's, Empire's William Thomas, It's, Miracle, Murray's, On, Paramount Pictures, Pre-release, Press, Roger Ebert, Street, The Washington Post's Joe, Wonderful Life
related to Development · 16
Scrooged → At, Eddie Murphy, Exterior, Ghostbusters, Hollywood, IBC, In, Linson, Murray, Murray's, New York City, Producer Art Linson, Scrooge, Seagram Building, The Razor's Edge, When
related to Legacy · 16
Scrooged → Al Green's, Annie Lennox's, Christmas, Den, Entertainment Weekly's Whitney Pastorek, Geek, Heart, In, Johnston, Little Love, O'Donoghue, Pastorek, PopMatters, Put, Since, The Boston Globe's Maura
related to Box office · 9
Scrooged → Christmas, Company, It, Oliver, Over, Thanksgiving-extended, The, The Land Before Time, United States
Starring · 8
Scrooged → Alfre Woodard, Bill Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, John Forsythe, Karen Allen, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Mitchum
related to Release · 7
Scrooged → Bill Murray, California, Ghostbusters, Los Angeles, Murray's, November, The
related to External links · 3
Scrooged → Box Office MojoScrooged, IMDbScrooged, Rotten Tomatoes
Edited by · 2
Scrooged → Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp

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ScroogedBased onA Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens1.00infobox
ScroogedBox office$100.3 million1.00infobox
ScroogedBudget$32 million1.00infobox
ScroogedCinematographyMichael Chapman1.00infobox
ScroogedCountryUnited States1.00infobox
ScroogedDirected byRichard Donner1.00infobox
ScroogedDistributed byParamount Pictures1.00infobox
ScroogedEdited byFredric Steinkamp1.00infobox
ScroogedEdited byWilliam Steinkamp1.00infobox
ScroogedLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
ScroogedMusic byDanny Elfman1.00infobox
ScroogedProduced byRichard Donner1.00infobox
ScroogedProduced byArt Linson1.00infobox
ScroogedProduction companiesParamount Pictures1.00infobox
ScroogedProduction companiesMirage Productions1.00infobox
ScroogedRelease dateNovember 23, 1988 (1988-11-23)1.00infobox
ScroogedRunning time101 minutes1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringBill Murray1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringKaren Allen1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringJohn Forsythe1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringBobcat Goldthwait1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringCarol Kane1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringRobert Mitchum1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringMichael J. Pollard1.00infobox
ScroogedStarringAlfre Woodard1.00infobox
ScroogedWritten byMitch Glazer1.00infobox
ScroogedWritten byMichael O'Donoghue1.00infobox
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