Patrick Swayze

Demi Moore

Whoopi Goldberg

Tony Goldwyn

Vincent Schiavelli

Rick Aviles

Martina Deignan

Rick Kleber

Phil Leeds

Armelia McQueen

Gail Boggs

Stephen Root

Alma Beltran

Vivian Bonnell

Derek Thompson

Tom Finnegan

Bruce Jarchow

Said Faraj

Dorothy Love Coates

Christopher J. Keene

Susan Breslau

Macka Foley

John Hugh

Sam Tsoutsouvas

Sharon Breslau

Angelina Estrada

Thom Curley

Laura Drake

Augie Blunt

J. Christopher Sullivan

Charlotte Zucker

Sondra Rubin

Faye Brenner

William Cort

Minnie Summers Lindsey

Mabel Lockridge

Arsenio Hall

Stanley Lawrence

Jerry Zucker

Lisa Weinstein

Howard W. Koch

Maurice Jarre

Adam Greenberg

Janet Hirshenson

Jane Jenkins

Clayton Collins

Walter Murch

Jeff Ward

Dirk Petersmann

Jane Musky

Ruth Morley

Allan Graf

John Watson

Mark W. Mansbridge

Joe D. Mitchell

Julia L. Walker

Dione Taylor

Marietta Carter-Narcisse

Kyle Sweet

Butch West

Gary Kudroff

Stan Tropp

Steve Maslow

Leslie Shatz

Douglas Greenfield

Jeff Howard

Candace Lewis

Martine Tomczyk

Anthony Stacchi

Sean Turner

Judith Weaver

Doug Chiang

Charlie Clavadetscher

Michael Gleason

Ned Gorman

John T. Van Vliet

Howard Stein

Richard Edlund

Katherine Kean

Bruce Nicholson

Charlie Picerni

Mike Benson

Elizabeth Ziegler

Peter Sorel

Deven Chierighino

Dawn J. Jackson

Gene R. Johnson

Eric Klosterman

Patti Hawn

Bruce Joel Rubin

Gary Davis

Ben Nye Jr.

Robert Lindsey

Bill 'Kauhane' Hoyt

Michael Lessa

David J. Negrón Jr.

Christopher E. Bennett

E. Jeane Putnam

Eugene Crum

Tom Bertino

Laura Buff

Ed Jones

Martin Rosenberg

Scott Ross

Jim Rygiel

Sandy Berumen

Gavin Alcott

Charles John Bukey

Billy Clevenger

Jono Kouzouyan

Donald L. Hartley

Harold Hathaway

Sylvia Fay

Kendall Errair

Tom Shaffer

William Hogue

Sheila Barnes

Beth Brown

Wayne Fitzgerald

John Moy

Laura Tateishi

Lindsay Doran

Gary McLarty

Bob K. Cummings

Shane Dixon

Ramiro González

Peter Hock

Andy Duppin

Kym Washington Longino

Gene McLaughlin

Harry Madsen

Michael Magill

Lee Haxall

David Lee Fein

Fantasy

Drama

Thriller

Mystery

Romance

Ghost

Paramount Pictures

Howard W. Koch Productions

United States of America

_**Top-of-the-line drama/thriller tackles the afterlife**_

A man suddenly discovers that he's a ghost (Patrick Swayze) and means to find his killer while protecting his former fiancé (Demi Moore). Tony Goldwyn plays his business partner while Whoopi Goldberg is on hand as a psychic spiritual advisor.   

Like all great movies, “Ghost” (1990) takes about 15-20 minutes to establish the characters and then takes off, gripping the viewer until the end. It combines drama, thrills and comedy in its fascinating exploration of the hereafter and is cut from the same cloth as future movies “City of Angels” (1998), “Meet Joe Black” (1998) and “The Sixth Sense” (1999).

While the film’s theology is no deeper than a Jack T. Chick tract and I don’t agree with every jot & tittle, it effectively conveys its profound ideas in a way that is palatable to the masses.

The movie runs 2 hours, 6 minutes and was shot in New York City (Manhattan and Brooklyn), Paramount Studios and downtown Los Angeles.

GRADE: A/A-

Tony Goldwyn should have been a more popular actor. He was actually pretty exceptional in almost everything he has done but never actually made it to superstar status.

Instead he kind of lingered in supporting actor limbo through the 90s and then kind of disappeared.

It's a shame.

And he's not the only unsung hero in Ghost, Vincent Schiavelli is in it too.

It has a great cast that brings their all to the film.

The script isn't that imaginative, you've seen a few movies like this before, but that never really matters when it's done well.

CinemaSerf

"Sam" (Patrick Swayze) and his girlfriend "Molly" (Demi Moore) aren't the best at pottery, but they do know how to make a mess! A trip to the theatre to see the Scottish play doesn't end well though, as he is randomly attacked in the street. She's desolate but fortunately his work colleague "Carl" (Tony Goldwyn) is on hand to try to help her through the aftermath. What she doesn't know, though, is that "Sam" is stuck in limbo. He can't move on and so must watch her every day life unfold. Quickly, he realises that his old pal is keen on "Molly" and then, even worse, begins to suspect that his death wasn't quite as random as it might have seemed. How can he talk to her; warn her? Well that's where the star of the show comes in. "Oda Mae" (Whoopi Goldberg) is a medium who spends her time telling old widows that their long dead husbands still love them. She is ill-prepared to star in her own version of "Blithe Spirit", though, and that doesn't get any easier when she tries to convince "Molly" she is really in touch with "Sam" and that he is terrified that she may also be a target of a nefarious plot. The Righteous Brothers also have to take a share of the plaudits here as their "Unchained Melody" refrain helps set the scene for a romantic mystery that's peppered with some tea-time menace and a Goldberg who is at the top of her game. The plot itself isn't maybe the strongest and I'm glad I didn't have an account with his bank, but it's two hours that flies by keeping sentimentality and slapstick to a minimum and allowing the spirit of "Madame Arcati" to enter the 1990s enjoyably. There are even nuns, too!