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Ghost
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
1990 · Directed by Jerry Zucker · 127 min · Fantasy · Romance · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
Before Sam was murdered, he told Molly he'd love and protect her forever.
Plot
Banker Sam Wheat and his artist girlfriend Molly Jensen move into a Tribeca loft with the help of Sam's best friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. One night, the couple is attacked on the street by a mugger, and though Sam appears to chase him away, he returns to a devastated Molly cradling his bloodied corpse and realizes he has died. A bright beam of light shines down on Sam, but he stays with Molly, and the light disappears. As a ghost, a despondent Sam remains by Molly's side. He is unable to interact with the physical world, and the other ghosts he encounters are unhelpful.
Sometime later, the mugger breaks into Molly's apartment, but Sam drives him away by scaring her cat, which scratches his face. While pursuing the mugger, Sam is attacked by a hostile ghost on the subway train who can move physical objects. Sam follows the mugger back to his apartment, learning his name—Willie Lopez—and that he targeted Sam. Sam later encounters Oda Mae Brown, a charlatan psychic medium, but he realizes she can hear him. He harasses Oda Mae until she agrees to warn Molly that she is in danger.
Molly refuses to believe Oda Mae's claims that Sam's ghost is warning her until Sam tells Oda Mae to say "ditto"—his response whenever Molly said she loved him. Molly tells the police and Carl about Willie, but they dismiss the story and disclose Oda Mae's history of fraud, leaving Molly disheartened.
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Crew
- Written by: Bruce Joel Rubin
- Cinematography: Adam Greenberg
- Edited by: Walter Murch
- Music: Maurice Jarre
- Production design: Jane Musky
- Produced by: Howard W. Koch, Lisa Weinstein
Cast
- Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat
- Demi Moore as Molly Jensen
- Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown
- Tony Goldwyn as Carl Bruner
- Vincent Schiavelli as Subway Ghost
- Rick Aviles as Willie Lopez
- Martina Deignan as Rose
- Rick Kleber as Mover
- Phil Leeds as Emergency Room Ghost
- Armelia McQueen as Oda Mae's Sister
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Box office: $505,000,000
- Themes: fortune teller, corruption, soulmates, afterlife, money transfer, money laundering, pottery, hell, dark comedy, heaven
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