Scrooged is a 1988 American comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman. The cast includes Bill Murray, Karen Allen, Bobcat Goldthwait, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, David Johansen, John...
Lew grabs Frank's arm as Frank walks toward him. He tries to warn him by comp...
As Lee Majors rejoins the fight, the camera pulls back. It becomes apparent t...
The Ghost of Christmas Past tells Frank to close his eyes. He refuses so she ...
Frank looks up at the abstract painting of a woman on the wall of his office ...
Frank re-enters his office. His younger brother James is there waiting for him.
Frank and the Ghost of Christmas Past look through the window at Frank and Cl...
The credits roll. The scene changes to James and Wendy's. James looks to his ...
Frank hands Calvin to Grace after he speaks for the first time since his fath...
Frank has just finished the speech of a lifetime. He looks down to his side w...
Everyone is transfixed by Frank's passionate plea to them all to open their h...
Frank's monologue has captured the hearts of the cast and crew and everyone v...
Frank leads the cast and crew in a carol. The scene switches to James and Wen...
After kissing the dancer, he compares the kiss to Claire's. She is watching t...
Frank walks over to one of the dancers who is standing under mistletoe. She g...
Frank walks around the set making everyone laugh and feel good. His execs loo...
While Frank is talking to the viewing audience, Eliot intercepts Preston's ca...
Frank continues to talk to the viewing audience and the cast and crew.
Preston, watching the show from home, dials the studio.
Frank, with Eliot's help, interrupts the live broadcast and takes over the set.
Frank appears on screen. Brice and the Techs in the control room react, just ...
Up in his office, Frank is hugging Eliot's neck when the clock sounds. Eliot,...
Eliot, in a state of disbelief in the transformation of character Frank's und...
Frank, happy to be alive pushes Eliot's shot gun aside and gives him a big kiss.
The Ghost of Christmas Future takes Frank to his own cremation ceremony. Only...
The Ghost of Christmas Future takes Frank first to an asylum where Calvin is ...
Frank ask Eliot if they can deal with their differences after the Holiday as ...
Just as the real Ghost of Christmas Future reaches out of the monitor's to gr...
Grace and Brice walk Frank to the elevator. The doors open. The TV Ghost of C...
Frank gets up in the city sewer system after being knocked their by the Ghost...
Frank is getting testy. It's time to leave his brother's but he doesn't want ...
Even after his brother shows such great devotion to him, Frank still has prob...
Frank is standing in his brother's apartment with the Ghost of Christmas Pres...
At his brothers Christmas party they are playing a game. The Ghost of Christm...
Frank is reluctant to enter his brother's place. The Ghost of Christmas Prese...
The Ghost of Christmas Present is tickling Frank. Suddenly she punches him to...
Inside Grace's apartment, the Ghost of Christmas Present continues to deliver...
Ghost of Christmas Present enters Grace's through the window. Frank follows h...
Watching Calvin through Grace's window, the Ghost of Christmas Present fills ...
The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank to Grace's house. They look through t...
Frank puts up his fist and threatens to hit the Ghost of Christmas Present if...
The Ghost of Christmas Present paints an X with sparkles on the side of Frank...
Frank asks the Ghost of Christmas Present why she kicked him in the groin.
The Ghost of Christmas Present, dressed like a fairy floats across the set to...
Frank returns to the set from the shelter to find Brice directing the product...
Frank's impatience gets the best of him. He takes a few steps away from Clair...
At the shelter, Frank's cynical nature rises to the surface once again. He wa...
Claire smiles at Franks suggestion. He wants Claire to delegate her responsib...
At the shelter, Frank does a scene from Cleopatra then tries to chase his new...
Herman, Billy and Eva mistake Frank for Richard Burton and ask him to do a sc...
In the shelter, Frank is seated on a bench by one of the workers. Three of th...
Frank enters the shelter, still babbling aloud about Claire.
After being returned to the present, Frank leaves the studio to find Claire. ...
Frank turns to find the Ghost of Christmas Past is no longer sitting beside h...
The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank to 1971 to the set of Frank's Frisbee...
Watching himself and Claire open the Kama Sutra, Frank turns to the Ghost of ...
Frank watches through the window with a smile as he and Claire red the sticke...
Even as he tries to justify it, Frank experiences feelings of regret, seeing ...
The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank from 1968 to 1969. He and Claire are ...
As soon as the elevator doors close. Frank sees himself in '68 walking into a...
Ghost of Christmas Past takes Frank out of the Christmas party toward the ele...
Frank watches himself in disbelief at the office Christmas party in 1968. He ...
The Ghost of Christmas Past can only role his eyes at Frank's refusal to face...
Frank tries again to refute the fact that he spent his youth living in the TV.
Outside the house, Frank tries to say he was crying only because his dad gave...
The TV Ghost of Christmas Past, standing just behind Frank, leans forward and...
Frank watches as his mother blows his young self a loving kiss from the doorw...
Frank stands in the room with the Ghost of Christmas Past, watching his fathe...
Earl, standing over Young Frank, bends slightly as he mocks him saying his age.
Young Frank, holding the veal, looks up at his father from the floor.
Earl enters the house after work, walks over to Young Frank where he's siting...
The cab, driven by Ghost of Christmas Past, is about to have a head on collis...
Exiting the restaurant, Frank is picked in a taxi driven by the Ghost of Chri...
It's twelve noon. Frank is at the restaurant with Preston Rhinelander and Bri...
The carpenters pause, causing the set to collapse. The Censor, already beat u...
Frank, extremely agitated, turns to silence the stage hands again. When turns...
When Claire presses Frank about the reason for his distress call, he passes i...
Frank, on the set talking to Claire, is upset by the stage hands making his c...
Frank sees Calvin on the set. He rushes over to him, kneels down, crabs a fis...
While visiting Frank on the set, Claire threatens to call the Human Society i...
One of the Techs brings a mouse over to Frank on the set, interrupting his co...
On the set, the Censor is knocked out by a carpenter swinging a prop. Frank c...
Frank is called to the set because the Censor won't allow a costume to reveal...
Grace is looking at Calvin, who's brothers and sisters have decorated him lik...
At home washing her hair, Grace is questioned by her daughter and her mother....
An old woman with packages has hailed a cab. When the cab pulls up Frank lies...
Back in his office after being dropped by Lew, Frank's phone dials Claire by ...
Another promo comes on the TV set. Wally Cleaver is shown walking into the ki...
Frank is completely insensitive to Grace's needs. She pleads with him, to no ...
Frank continues to take Lew lightly as Lew pokes Frank hard in the chest with...
Stepping toward Lew and pointing his finger at him, Frank tries to rationaliz...
Frank, in the office alone is paid a viste by a ghostly figure that stops to ...
The ghostly figure identifies himself and walks toward Frank. Frank has a lit...
Grace carries Calvin down the stairs from the train platform, complaining bec...
Eliot is standing on the curb about to take a drink from a bottle in a brown ...
James is waiting for Frank when he returns to his office.
Upset because he's making her work late, Grace needles Frank about how cheap ...
Before walking away from the elevator, Frank runs into Brice Cummings who is ...
Frank walks Preston Rhinelander to the elevator, listening to his idea about ...
Preston Rhinelander tells Frank how many cats and dogs there are in America a...
Grace is about to complain when Preston Rhinelander enters the office.
Eliot is sitting on the steps in front of the building after being fired by F...
Frank rips Grace's picture off the wall and tosses it in the trash can.
Elliot stays behind after the meeting to tell Frank what he thought of Frank'...
Frank shows his promo reel to the executive group.
Frank gets up and walks around to the other in of the table and looks at his ...
Frank, seated at the head of the conference table, surrounded by his somewhat...
Mary Lou Retton, dressed as Tiny Tim is shown doing a back flip on the TV scr...
Santa is ready to take the fight to the attackers. Lee discourages him, then ...
A man in a white snow suit comes through the door holding heavy firepower. He...
With the work shop under attack, Mrs. Claus rallies the helpers, runs to a cl...
The movie opens with Santa and Mrs Claus in the workshop preparing for Christ...
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