A Very Murray Christmas (Sofia Coppola, 2015)
There’s not really enough to this one hour Christmas special for a standalone Sofia Coppola post. But it’s very charming! The premise of this special is that Bill Murray has to do a live television Christmas special at the Carlyle, but everything’s shut down because of a massive blizzard and none of his guests can show up. Then the power goes out and Murray (and everybody else stuck at the hotel) has to make do. Which isn’t so bad because the Carlyle is an extremely good hotel.
The casting is a fun mix of celebrities playing themselves (Chris Rock as Chris Rock, and so on) and celebrities playing goofy little bit parts (Michael Cera as an agent who refers to Murray as “Murricane”). In some ways what this reminded me most of was an old movie musical—like Holiday Inn1—where a thin premise is basically an …
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