A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.
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Akin to a loose, off-the-cuff spiritual heir to “Lost in Translation,” which like this special was directed by Sofia Coppola , Murray’s Netflix-exclusive 56-minute holiday hour finds him spending Christmas Eve in New York City’s Carlyle Hotel, where he’s set to film a live TV show.
"A Very Murray Christmas," which he co-wrote with previous collaborators Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation") and Mitch Glazer ("Scrooged," also in need of a renaissance) is both paean and spoof of the classic holiday special in which beloved performers —Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Andy Williams, the Osmonds — spend an hour or two singing and dancing with equally talented friends who just happen to "drop by." (For those interested in the perils of live television and Christmas in an alcoholic family, "The Judy Garland Christmas Show" is hard to beat.) 'Very Murray Christmas' | Trailer Watch the trailer for the classic holiday special "Very Murray Christmas."
And then the new special, which will be available on Friday on Netflix, was directed and co-written by Sofia Coppola, the very same person who helped Murray deliver his most affecting (and only Oscar-nominated) performance, in “Lost in Translation.”
Co-written and directed by Sofia Coppola (who coaxed such a memorable performance from Murray in the 2003 film “Lost in Translation”), the special isn’t as funny or inventive as one might hope.
“I’m so alone,” Murray groans at one point, and there are a few faint echoes of the character he played in “Lost in Translation” — another man trapped in a hotel during a period of existential doubt who turns to music for solace.
It plays like an off-market continuation of Scrooged, which Glazer cowrote, and Lost in Translation, which Coppola wrote and directed.