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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Bruce Joel Rubin (written by)
Release Date:
13 July 1990 (USA)
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Tagline:
A love that will last forever. more
Plot:
After being killed during a botched mugging, a man's love for his partner enables him to remain on earth as a ghost. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 15 wins
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22 nominations
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(267 articles)
Outrage: An Interview with Director Ace Cruz
(From 28 Days Later Analysis. 18 November 2009, 11:22 AM, PST)
Demi Moore starting to feel age difference with Ashton
(From Monsters and Critics. 10 November 2009, 2:35 AM, PST)
(From 28 Days Later Analysis. 18 November 2009, 11:22 AM, PST)
Demi Moore starting to feel age difference with Ashton
(From Monsters and Critics. 10 November 2009, 2:35 AM, PST)
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It has a lot more subtext than its naysayers will tell you...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Patrick Swayze | ... | Sam Wheat |
 | Demi Moore | ... | Molly Jensen |
 | Tony Goldwyn | ... | Carl Bruner |
 | Stanley Lawrence | ... | Elevator Man |
| Christopher J. Keene | ... | Elevator Man |
| Susan Breslau | ... | Susan |
| Martina Deignan | ... | Rose (as Martina Degnan) |
| Rick Kleber | ... | Mover (as Richard Kleber) |
| Macka Foley | ... | Mover |
| Rick Aviles | ... | Willie Lopez |
| Phil Leeds | ... | Emergency Room Ghost |
| John Hugh | ... | Surgeon |
| Sam Tsoutsouvas | ... | Minister |
| Sharon Breslau | ... | Cemetery Ghost (as Sharon Breslau Cornell) |
 | Vincent Schiavelli | ... | Subway Ghost |
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Runtime:
127 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (video rating) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #30013) |
UK:12 |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia)
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Paul Hogan was among the long list of actors to decline the lead role. Paul Hogan instead made Almost an Angel (1990).
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Continuity: When Sam is on the train, he is pushed violently through the rails, cabin doors, but hits his head on the last cart.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "NYPD Blue: Black Men Can Jump (#1.17)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
I'M HENRY THE VIII, I AM
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It may be easy to write this fantasy/love story off as a bloated box-office winner with a heart of F/X, however the performances are so winning, and the Oscar-winning script so satisfying, I can't believe it doesn't rate higher with viewers. Murdered businessman (Patrick Swayze, not a good actor but doing OK here) sets out in ghostly form to bring his killers to justice--and to watch out over his lovely girlfriend (Demi Moore, hitting all the right notes of a grieving lover). Whoopi Goldberg won a Supporting Oscar as a fake medium and Tony Goldwyn is uncanny as a slimeball ex-friend (his sniveling is so convincing it may have cost him real-life celebrity). Extremely well-directed by Jerry Zucker--in anybody else's hands, this might have turned to mush. ***1/2 from ****