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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby, Digital Audio, English, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound
Think of the most touching love story you ever saw. Think, too of the brightest comedy, the most astonishing supernatural tale and a sleek mystery-thriller. Did you come up with four separate films? Or are you among the millions of fans and critics who've discovered Ghost, the number one film of 1990? Ghost will surprise you, delight you, make you believe. Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams with a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to uncover the truth behind his murder--and to rescue his sweetheart (Demi Moore) from a similar fate. "The word of mouth is that Ghost is a must-see romance", says Entertainment Weekly. Ditto to that!
"You'll fall in love with Ghost." Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"A near-perfect movie. A 10!" Gary Franklin, KABC-TV
Editor's Note
After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze), a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down by a street mugger. Molly goes into a deep depression, but, unknown to her, Sam has come back as a ghost in order to protect her from danger--although he isn't yet aware who or what means her harm, and he has a lot of learning to do in order to make himself known to her. He teams up with an unwilling psychic, Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), and together they try to convince a very skeptical Molly that Sam was actually murdered and has returned spectrally to complete some unfinished business. Moore and Swayze and are excellent as the couple, and Goldberg won an Oscar for her portrayal of the wild and wacky psychic. GHOST is considered by many to be one of the most romantic films of the 1990s.
Plot Summary
Shortly after moving into a new Manhattan apartment, a pair of lovers are separated by a street thug's bullet. Communicating through a frazzled false medium, the man's ghost tries to avenge his death and protect his girlfriend. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Picture, Best Original Score. Academy Awards: 2, including Best (Original) Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress--Whoopi Goldberg.
| Features | Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Access | | Interactive Menus | | English Subtitles | | "Remembering The Magic" Retrospective | | Commentary By Director Jerry ZUcker & Writer Bruce JOel Rubin | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround & Dolby Surround | | French Dolby Surround |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Ghost - DVD By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/12/2007 4:23 AM | |
With a premise this stupid, it's hard to believe that Ghost became not just a mega-blockbuster but -- and you may have forgotten this -- the winner of two Oscars. Sure, most people remember Whoopi Goldberg's Best Supporting Actress win, but can you believe it also took home a Best Original Screeplay trophy? Ghost. You know, the one with Patrick Swayze loving up his wife from beyond the grave....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 1/4/2005 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 320044 | | UPC: 00097363200444 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1991) |  | Whoopi Goldberg, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | | Bruce Joel Rubin, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen | | | Maurice Jarre, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | | | Lisa Weinstein, Nominee, Best Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Eccentric enough to remain interesting....[Goldberg] makes the most of it..." 07/13/1990 p.C8Premiere
"[F]unny and touching and memorable." 04/01/2004 p.54 Ultimate DVD
5 stars out of 5 -- "Swayze and Moore were two stars at the absolute top of their game and it's their magnetic chemistry that gives enduring momentum to this story..." 05/01/2007 p.99 Washington Post 7 of 10
An old-fashioned fantasy shot through with sentiment... This heart-shaped thriller, relieved with farce and spectral effects, addresses the grief of parting and the mourning after--on both sides of the veil... - Rita Kempley
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