Scrooged
Movie • 1988 • Fantasy
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In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly 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.
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Frank suggests that a mother should beat her child. She doesn't actually do it, though.
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Frank's father
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Drug abuse is briefly discussed in the ad they're watching in the beginning of the movie.
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mice are threatened with getting mini antlers stapled to their heads, this doesnt happen
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No cats are killed but one gets kicked.
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A cat is kicked, but does not die on screen from it.
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The unnamed redheaded censor kisses Brice while he is bound and gagged and can't give consent.
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Close up of Frank getting kicked in the groin and screaming "you kicked me in the..."
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Frank hallucinates that a waiter catches on fire from a baked alaska.
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One of the ghosts holds Bill Murray out the window by his throat
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Lew's desiccated arm breaks apart, exposing the broken bone.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Frank is knocked down many, many things by the Ghost of Christmas Present
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Someone falls many stories out an office building but doesn’t die - wakes up as he almost hits the ground.
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The homeless man from earlier in the movie is shown to have frozen to death. It's actually a rather disturbing scene.
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Does a parent die?
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It's mentioned that Calvin's dad died and that's why he doesn't speak anymore.
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Though minor, Frank's boss and Death both have "jumpy" shots at some point. There's also a fake out jumpscare with the dead homeless man.
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Not a shower but a bathtub scene with a woman washing herself.
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Howard looks like a desdicated corpse.
While Christmas Past and Christmas Present are not frightening or malevolent, Christmas Future resembles the Grim Reaper with a TV for a face.
While Christmas Past and Christmas Present are not frightening or malevolent, Christmas Future resembles the Grim Reaper with a TV for a face.
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There is a mention of generic global terrorist attacks and an exploding plane, but the movie was made before 9/11 so it's not a purposeful connection.
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No, but right at the end of the movie, Bill Murray’s character gives instructions to the audience and says the line “okay, now the women! No, no! The *real* women, you know who you are.” Which may be interpreted as transphobia
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A needle is briefly shown in the ad for Scrooge towards the beginning of the movie.
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You see a kid in a mental institution during a future scene. Though he isn't mistreated in the scene, it may be upsetting to those who have been in an institution before.
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A boy in an institution is observed.
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Frank tells his boss' ghost that "they'll think I'm a suicide!" as he's thrown out the window
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Past, Present and Future are merged together in jarring and hallucinagenic-esque ways at several points in the movie. It's kinda the main plot actually.
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Frank is trapped in a coffin.
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A fired employee storms in attempting to shoot Frank
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There is some shakey camera work at the very beginning, but none in the rest of the film.
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During the ending credits the 4th wall is broken by the main character calling on the audience members to sing along.
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At the end of the movie, when Frank breaks the fourth wall and asks the movie audience to sing. After he asks the men to sing, he then asks the "real men" to sing.
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DreadyBetty
There is a story line where a child who cannot speak starts speaking at the climax of the movie, making disability something to overcome.
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Not necessarily hate speech but Frank talks about the racist stereotypes of Chinese restaurants cooking cats.
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A disabled character is “cured”
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At one point the main character says something about "the jews" but its said in a positive way.
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There is insinuation that an older boss is getting a flirty dinner alone with a much younger assistant but we don't see contact.
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There are sexy dancers in the movie and a scene in the movie about possible nipple exposure of the dancers and how badly men want to see them.
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No, but when a character notes that Frank is crying, he pretends not to be and claims it's due to being happy.
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There is an entire scene that happens occurs in a homeless center and a homeless man dies of exposure.
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Does a car crash?
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A plane explodes in a very fake commercial.
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Not bloody but Lew's ghost holds Frank out the window and his desiccated arm breaks apart. This exposes the muscles, bones, and sinew.
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Is there gun violence?
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Frank fires a handgun at Lew's ghost in his office. Elliott chases Frank through the building with a shotgun.
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