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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   46,840 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Bruce Joel Rubin (written by)
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Release Date:
13 July 1990 (USA) more
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
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 22 nominations more
User Comments:
It has a lot more subtext than its naysayers will tell you... more (202 total)
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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). more
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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. more
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Ortisha's Friend: Can we get started soon?
Oda Mae Brown: Oh, chill out. Chill. Out!
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I'M HENRY THE VIII, I AM more

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29 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
It has a lot more subtext than its naysayers will tell you..., 29 June 2003
8/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

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 ****

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Molly's clothes Heidi_Smiles
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