Scrooged – (1988)
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Alfre Woodard, Robert Mitchum
In this modern take on Charles Dickens‘ “A Christmas Carol” Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past. There have been many spins on “A Christmas Carol” but in movie terms at least this is one of the best.