The disembodied voice belongs to Sam (Swayze), a dead Manhattan banker whose spirit is in limbo. One afternoon, Oda Mae hears a voice that interrupts her ''seance. Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg) plies her trade in a Brooklyn storefront where for $20, she'll tell you that there's a curse on you, and for $20 more, she'll have it removed. Yes, this is the kind of movie where the good guys go to heaven on beams of celestial light and the bad guys go you-know-where when attacked by animated figures in black shrouds.īut it is also the kind of movie where the delightful Whoopi Goldberg - in her first decent role since 1985's The Color Purple - plays a bogus medium who, to her horror, discovers that she really has the gift. The script by Bruce Joel Rubin succeeds at combining seriously emotional material with seriously funny sequences about the skepticism with which you regard the supernatural. Given its obviously commercial aims, Ghost is remarkably appealing on a purely personal level. Ghost is a suspenseful, supernatural comedy-romance starring Patrick Swayze as a murdered banker whose spirit protects his endangered girlfriend Demi Moore through the unlikely medium of sham spiritualist Whoopi Goldberg.īecause it comes from Paramount Pictures, the studio that specializes in formula blockbusters, you guess that Ghost intends to combine Poltergeist's haunting elements with Ghostbusters' taunting wit.
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