101 mins - United States 1988 Director: Richard Donner Starring: Bill Murray, Karen Allen and Alfre Woodard High-spirited high-jinks on Christmas Eve puts Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humour - perfect qualities for a modern day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future. “The rarest form of contemporary Hollywood phenomena – a Christmas movie with Christmas Spirit.” The Boston Globe Read more Read less