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Bill Murray stars in this 1988 American Christmas comedy directed by Richard Donner. A modernisation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Murray plays a cynical TV executive haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

Frank Cross (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.