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Ghost (1990)

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Reviews Counted:40

Fresh:32

Rotten:8

Average Rating:6.6/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze), a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is... After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze), a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down by a street mugger. Molly goes into a deep depression, but, unknown to her, Sam has come back as a ghost in order to protect her from danger--although he isn't yet aware who or what means her harm, and he has a lot of learning to do in order to make himself known to her. He teams up with an unwilling psychic, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), and together they try to convince a very skeptical Molly that Sam was actually murdered and has returned spectrally to complete some unfinished business. Moore and Swayze and are excellent as the couple, and Goldberg won an Oscar for her portrayal of the wild and wacky psychic. GHOST is considered by many to be one of the most romantic films of the 1990s. [More]

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn

Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles, Vincent Schiavelli

Director: Jerry Zucker

Director: Jerry Zucker
Screenwriter: Peter Barsocchini, Bruce Joel Rubin
Composer: Maurice Jarre

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Feb 2, 2010

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Rolling Stone
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10/17/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

A mix of too many genres ... and a rather wrong-headed romance.

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Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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10/05/02
Josh Ralske
Josh Ralske
All Movie Guide

Ghastly treacle that mystifyingly became popular.

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02/16/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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03/28/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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07/27/02
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Ghost is a movie about corporate malfeasance and greed, aided by bloody awful early CGI and predicting the basic flippancy of Forrest Gump and American Beauty.

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08/07/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

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06/04/03
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

A touching supernatural romance, highlighted by Whoopi Goldberg's comic Oscar-winning support.

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Bob Bloom
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Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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Bob Grimm
Bob Grimm
Las Vegas CityLife

You’d need to be cold as ice for this tragic romance to fail to sweep you away.

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04/29/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

With a premise this stupid, it's hard to believe that Ghost became not just a mega-blockbuster but -- and you may have forgotten this -- the winner of two Oscars.

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Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

One of the best film's of it's time. Romantic, Thrilling, Funny and Touching.

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Clint Morris
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