In this modern take on Charles Dickens'"A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is just a hugely successful television executive whose cold dream 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 that offer him a opportunity to re evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.