A Very Murray Christmas

A snowstorm has shut down New York City on Christmas Eve, and Bill Murray is stuck at the Carlyle Hotel, where he is meant to host a live holiday television special. With travel paralyzed, the celebrity guests he invited cannot reach the venue, and the broadcast looks set to fall apart. Rather than call it off, Murray and the hotel staff and patrons put together their own celebration, filling the night with music and dancing.

Sofia Coppola directed the film, her seventh feature, following The Bling Ring and preceding The Beguiled. She wrote the screenplay with Murray and Mitch Glazer, and the cast includes Paul Shaffer, Michael Cera, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus and Dimitri Dimitrov among forty-one credited performers, with the band Phoenix providing live music. The production ran just under an hour and was released in December 2015.

Reception was mixed. On IMDb the film holds 5.5 from over sixteen thousand votes, and on TMDB 5.2 from several hundred. A critics' rating of 6.3 from fifty reviews places it above both audience scores, indicating that reviewers responded more favorably than general viewers did to this musical comedy special.