The film's central exploration of the afterlife, however, remains as vivid and provocative now as ever. Visual effects, the Oscar-nominated score, hairstyles, and fashions are all distinctively stamped by 1990. Nearly twenty years later, Ghost is unquestionably dated. To put the pieces together and warn Molly of potential danger, Sam turns to a con artist psychic (Goldberg) who's about to have her first encounter with a for-real ghost. After repeatedly failing to communicate with his grieving lover, Sam begins to figure out that he's still Earth-dwelling for a reason when the man who killed him breaks into Molly's apartment while Sam is, for all intents and purposes, home. Rather than pass on to the light side or the darkness as one might expect, Sam finds himself standing beside his own corpse, apparently invisible to everyone else, Molly included. Patrick Swayze stars as Sam Wheat, an innocent man gunned down during an evening stroll with his girlfriend, Molly (Demi Moore). And there's also a career-changing performance, courtesy of Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown. There's a quotable catch phrase: "Ditto", repeated ad infinitum in the film to narrative effect. There's a hit song: The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody", a cover made more popular than the original thanks to this very movie. There's an iconic scene: erotic pottery with two of Hollywood's biggest sex symbols. The Best Picture nominee has all the makings of an enduring classic.
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Released in the summer of 1990 and played on TV a million times since then, Ghost is a title you can comfortably reference in a conversation or even a digital short (see SNL's viral hit, "Lazy Sunday"). Ghost is one of those movies everyone knows.
Theatrical Release: J/ Running Time: 126 Minutes / Rating: PG-13ĭirector: Jerry Zucker / Writer: Bruce Joel RubinĬast: Patrick Swayze (Sam Wheat), Demi Moore (Molly Jensen), Whoopi Goldberg (Oda Mae Brown), Tony Goldwyn (Carl Bruner), Rick Aviles (Willie Lopez), Vincent Schiavelli (Subway Ghost), Angelina Estrada (Rosa Santiago), Armelia McQueen (Oda Mae's Sister), Gail Boggs (Oda Mae's Sister), Stephen Root (Police Sgt.), Laura Drake (Policewoman), Augie Blunt (Orlando), Vivian Bonnell (Ortisha)
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