Scrooged
- by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue, directed by Richard Donner
- Novel
- Fantasy, Comedy
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- Scrooged by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue, directed by Richard Donner (premiere, Los Angeles, 17 November 1988).
Frank Cross, the ruthless president of a TV network, deals with producing A Christmas Carol extravaganza while being visited by the traditional Christmas ghosts who, among other things, bring him to a point of regretting his rat-bastard treatment of his employees over many years and his schmucky dumping of the perfect girlfriend years ago.
—Michael Main
Now this is just possible future, right?
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1950 to 1959: Frank’s childhood
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: Frank as a young employee: 1968–9
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: Frank’s home time: circa 1988 and other times in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
- Timeline Models
- Themes
- Animals or Small Children Sense Time Travelers or Anomalies: A dog at the Christmas dinner can see Crook and invisible Frank and Christmas Present.
- Incorporeal Traveler
- Invisible Traveler
- Real-World Tags
- Christmas
- Colonel Tom Parker: on Crook’s Christmas list
- John Houseman: in IBC commercial as himself
- Lee Majors: in IBC commercial as himself
- Mary Lou Retton: mentioned
- Robert Goulet: in IBC commercial as himself
- Fictional Tags
- Dickensian Guides
- Fairies, Goblins, Dwarves, Nymphs, Elves, and Others of the Fae: elves in an IBC commercial and one of the ghosts is a fairy
- Ghosts
- Santa Claus: in IBC commercial
- Groupings
Variants
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- Scrooged by Mitch Glazer and Michael O’Donoghue, directed by Richard Donner (premiere, Los Angeles, 17 November 1988).
Previous Works
modern retelling of A Christmas Carol (1843)
Indexer Notes
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- Genre—For me, the black comedy aspect missed its mark. MIght have worked better had Claire’s taxi crashed through the set at the end.
- Classification—Cross, Past, and Present seem to be pure observers, so we mark the time travel as debatable.