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| Ghost |
Studio executives
summary / pitch
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| Patrick Swayze, hot out of Dirty Dancing, has his shirt off in the first five minutes! Then he becomes a Ghost...! OOOoeeeeee oooooooo.... Yea... |
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Short plot
summary |
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Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is killed in a botched burglary. He is in love with Molly Jensen (Demi Moore). When he dies his ghost stays on earth. He discovers that his previously thought to be best friend Carl Bruner (Tony Goldwyn) in fact was behind his death. Sam stumbles upon a spiritual medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) who can hear but not see him... |
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What our
panel of critics thought |
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"Never have I cried so loudly and at length to a floating penny! To this very day I cannot look at loose change in the eye without collapsing into an inconsolable heap!" "A terrible, missed, opportunity for hot girl-on-girl action towards the end of the movie. Whoopi jumping on Demi's bones! Oh what a missed opportunity, damn them!" Action Lesbians Today. "The pottery scene has been ruined by the Naked Gun send up. Damn them. I will never be able to potter erotically without laughing again!" "Not since The Omen have I seen such a bloody, glass induced, ending." |
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Please
tell me the ending or whole plot if necessary |
| Sam persuades Ode Mae to go see Molly. Molly is persuaded that Sam is a ghost but Ode Mae runs when she hears a murderer is involved and is about to come and get them... Ode May helps Sam remove the $4 million from a bank account for which Sam was murdered. She give the bankers draft to a group of Nuns. This makes bad boy, former friend, Carl, into Angry Man: he goes to get Molly and Ode Mae. Sam gets Ode May to go see Molly again in an emotional encounter involving loose change. Carl comes to kill Molly, but Sam has discovered how to move things with his mind... In the ensuing fight Carl is stopped by a glass guillotine type incident... Carl dies and the dogs come after him... Sam goes to Heaven in a Christ like, resurrection inspired, shiny ending... |
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Quotable quotes (real) |
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"Ditto." "A
penny for luck" |
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Do you believe
in Ghosts? |
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"I saw a ghost once. He wore a white sheet over his head and there were two holes cut out for eyes. Either that or I was on drugs and I was watching Scooby Doo." |
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How realistic
was the floating penny special effect? |
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We have been unable to study this closely as the scene is so sad it made us cry. |
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Could this
film be improved with more floating sheets? |
| Disappointingly there are no floating sheets with eyes cut out. There is also not a single character who screams OOOOeeee oooeee, either. Are they going for realism or what? |
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How emotional
is this movie? |
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This is a real tearjerker so make sure you have enough absorbency to hand, unless, that is, you go for the manly 'let the tears dry on the face' approach. Action lovers won't be disappointed either, even though when our hero punches the bad guy in the mush he falls straight through him. Whoopi Goldberg provides moments of mirth.. |
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Home improvement
specialists criticise the knocking down of the wall bit at the start of this movie.
What do you think? |
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It's
certainly one of the dustier moments in cinema history, enlivened only by the
manly nipples of Swayzee and Goldwyn (yes, the grandson of the movie mogul). From
a health and safety point of view it's good to see our hero's wearing face masks,
however, if that was a support wall they knocked down like that they were lucky
the whole building didn't fall on top of them. |
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Other comments
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| A fine and dandy movie with something for everyone. Nice philosophy on life too... the good spirit goes on to a higher plain on death, with the bad guys being eaten by dogs... |
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