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Casper: A Spirited Beginning

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Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

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Average Rating:4.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Childrens

Synopsis: A SPIRITED BEGINNING is a prequel to the first animated/live-action CASPER feature, introducing the friendliest ghost you know and explaining how he met the other ghouls at Applegate Manor. After... A SPIRITED BEGINNING is a prequel to the first animated/live-action CASPER feature, introducing the friendliest ghost you know and explaining how he met the other ghouls at Applegate Manor. After being stranded, Casper meets young Chris Carson, a lonely kid who decides to teach Casper how to be a proper ghost. The star-studded cast includes Steve Guttenberg, Lori Laughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean, Ben Stein, Sherman Hemsley, Edie McClurg, Debi Mazar, and the voices of James Earl Jones and Pauly Shore. [More]

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Brendon Ryan Barrett

Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Michael McKean, Ben Stein, Edie McClurg, Sherman Hemsley, Debi Mazar, Brian Doyle-Murray, Pauly Shore, James Earl Jones

Director: Sean McNamara

Director: Sean McNamara
Screenwriter: Jymn Magon, Thomas Hart
Story: Thomas McCluskey, Rob Kerchner
Producer: Rob Kerchner, Haim Saban, Jeffrey A. Montgomery, Lance H. Robbins, Mike Elliott
Composer: Udi Harpaz

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