In a completely different story, where Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is living a new state of terror through his television network. The story began with Frank during his tenure as an arrogant executive at ABC's headquarters. On that television network, there are three spirits carrying terrifying adventures on Christmas Eve.
Tacky in the extreme, this self-congratulatory 1988 film is an exercise in hypocrisy, indulging every form of Christmas exploitation that it pretends to attack, and many of the laughs are forced.
Combustible Celluloid
August 20, 2009
Bill Murray is the one of the greatest screen Scrooges in this 1980s updating.
In spite of the jokes at the expense of television-network censors, there's very little in the film, aside from naughty words, that wouldn't be perfectly acceptable on prime-time television.
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
August 12, 2006
Frequently funny take on Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with Murray learning a lesson.
Movie Metropolis
November 04, 2011
It's got Bill Murray, and that's always a good thing.
Despite the juicy, on-the-edge craziness, Murray is able to layer his outrageous histrionics with an inner sensibility, making his ultimate transformation not only believable but Christmas-cheer uplifting.
