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very dark, yet hilariously cynical take of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, starring Bill Murray in the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard-of levels to increase his network’s ratings -- even if it means mounting outrageous programs to retain an audience, such as “Robert Goulet’s Cajun Christmas” and Lee Majors in “The Night the Reindeer Died,” with an AK-47-toting Santa. Cross plots his foulest move, however, for the Christmas holiday, when he will force his office staff to mount a live production of A Christmas Carol on national television -- and thus work through Christmas Eve. Cross’s life is turned upside down with visits from three ghosts. Along the way, the spirits carry Frank to scenes from his past, present, and
