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Alamo Drafthouse Mason (Katy) presents Big Screen Classics: SCROOGED.

Like a rich Bordeaux from a good vintage, some films age well, delicately maturing and growing more sophisticated with each passing year. There is a wealth of cinematic gems out there, gathering dust in the annals of time. Enter Big Screen Classics - a place where we celebrate all of the accomplishments in movies over the past 100+ years. Here you'll see the crème de la crème of old movie magic.  You'll always be amazed at the riches of cinema history at Big Screen Classics.

This series also encompasses our Digital Classics Series. The newest advancement in digital movie technology involves the painstaking restoration and preservation of classic films using computer technology. The films are then printed onto 4K or 2K digital drives, providing the clearest and brightest image possible using our state-of-the-art digital projectors. Whenever an archive or a studio announces a new digital restoration, we rush to bring it to the Alamo.

There have been dozens of versions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" but none as darkly twisted and funny as SCROOGED, director Richard Donner's 1988 spin on the holiday tale.

Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross, a heartless TV exec who only wants the simple things in life: to make tons of money and for people to leave him the hell alone. He's is a greedy, despicable man who is actually pretty OK with everyone hating him. But one Christmas Eve, after he's made his crew work all night on a crap TV special and casually fired one employee (Bobcat Goldthwait!), the ruthless miser gets a visit from three ghosts (including the New York Dolls' David Johansen! And eternal pixie Carol Kane!) who try to show him the error of his ways -- with insults, hellacious cab rides to his unhappy past, punches to the face, and glimpses of a ruinous future.

Featuring Murray at his swaggering, wacky '80s comic best, scene-stealing supporting characters, cameos and pop culture reference galore, SCROOGED is simply waayy more fun than any Masterpiece Theatre adaptation could ever hope to be.