Ghost

    Ghost
    1990

    Synopsis

    After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

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    Cast

    • Patrick SwayzeSam Wheat
    • Demi MooreMolly Jensen
    • Whoopi GoldbergOda Mae Brown
    • Tony GoldwynCarl Bruner
    • Vincent SchiavelliSubway Ghost
    • Rick AvilesWillie Lopez
    • Martina DeignanRose
    • Rick KleberMover
    • Phil LeedsEmergency Room Ghost
    • Armelia McQueenOda Mae's Sister

    Recommendations

    • 100

      San Francisco Chronicle

      A wonderful movie, sincere and inspired, with four terrific performances and a story that doesn't let up. The picture has the gentle, nourishing quality of a fairy tale that you want to believe, and the unsoftened impact of gut-level entertainment. [13 July 1990, Daily Datebook, p.E1]
    • 88

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      It's an unpredictable, mesmerizing journey nearly every shady second of the way.
    • 75

      Chicago Tribune

      There are still some astonishingly tender moments, including looks exchanged between Swayze and Moore that seem magically divorced from this summer of exploding jets, severed limbs and homicidal children. [13 July 1990, Friday, p.D]
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      One of the irritations of Ghost is that the Moore character is such a slow study.
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      A big sweet hit, tingly and glycerined in a phony way, but diverting.
    • 50

      Washington Post

      It's formula-packed business as usual. In fact, it's double-packed, triple-packed, more.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      In all his athletic scenes, leaping through doors, leaping between uptown and downtown trains, leaping on an assortment of villains, Swayze is just fine. It's the movie's big cosmic questions that throw him; for these he's reduced to a look of total stupefaction--not the movie's finest moments. [13 July 1990, Calendar, p.F-1]
    • 40

      The New Republic

      The ghost is played by Patrick Swayze, who can't handle the part; his bereaved girlfriend, Demi Moore, is much better. [13 Aug 1990, p.30]

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