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Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member 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.
1988 · Directed by Richard Donner · 101 min · Fantasy · Comedy · Drama · 35 frames
Tagline
The spirits will move you in odd and hysterical ways.
Crew
- Written by: Mitch Glazer, Michael O'Donoghue
- Cinematography: Michael Chapman
- Edited by: Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: J. Michael Riva
- Produced by: Richard Donner, Art Linson
Cast
- Bill Murray as Francis Cross
- Karen Allen as Claire Phillips
- John Forsythe as Lew Hayward
- John Glover as Bryce Cummings
- Bobcat Goldthwait as Eliot Loudermilk
- Robert Mitchum as Preston Rhinelander
- David Johansen as Ghost of Christmas Past
- Carol Kane as Ghost of Christmas Present
- Nicholas Phillips as Calvin Cooley
- Michael J. Pollard as Herman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Mirage Productions
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Box office: $60,300,000
- Themes: holiday, tv ratings, ghost, duringcreditsstinger, christmas music, christmas, christmas eve
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