Bill Murray is pictured in a scene from Scrooged. The 1988 film Scrooged will be screened at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. Scrooged puts Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly ...

While Bill Murray’s Scrooged has become required holiday viewing, it wasn’t universally beloved upon its release in 1988.

Scrooged is the most experimental adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a TV network executive overseeing a live Christmas Eve production of the Charles Dickens ...

The film also includes various cameos, including Lee Majors, Miles Davis, Paul Shaffer, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn, John Houseman, Robert Goulet, Mary Lou Retton, and many more. Plus, Murray’s ...