M*A*S*H even did a similar plot with a ghost running around the camp waving around the cast's faces shouting "why can't you see me!" - I hate that trope. Really if you get right down to the nuts and bolts of this movie, it's Always with a plot and a purpose and not a needless remake with a wasted cast. What I really enjoy about Ghost is how well Bruce Joel Rubin's screenplay manages the disembodied spirit trope. I also appreciate that as an executive producer for The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear he wasn't above parodying the infamous pottery foreplay scene. Turns out the man had a knack for managing romance, suspense, drama, with a dash or two of comedy. I get Jerry Zucker wanting to break out of his comedic comfort zone and try something different. By my figure, it's been the better part of 20 years since I actually sat down and watched this movie from beginning to end and I'm actually rather glad to report it holds up. When the Blu-ray dropped I rented it and hardly glanced through it. My family had this on VHS and it'd be on from time to time, but when DVD hit I skipped it. I went into the theater a cynical little shit of a kid and came out begrudgingly admitting that I enjoyed myself. Having seen Witness several times by that point in my life and that Maurice Jarre score certainly tugged the heartstrings.
It had horror elements as sam exacted revenge for his death. It had comedy thanks to a great turn from Whoopi Goldberg. It had thriller elements to keep the excitement going. It was more than a schmaltzy ghost romance. I may not have been the target demographic when I saw this, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy myself.
My older sister got to pick the movie so off we went with my mother. I was eight years old when I saw Ghost in theaters, and believe me, that was the last place I wanted to be. As he pieces together the motive behind his murder, Sam turns to Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg), a charlatan psychic who can actually hear him. Murdered in an apparent mugging, Sam's soul is trapped on earth with unfinished business. Everything is going right - until it goes very wrong. A financial wizard in charge of accounts worth millions, he just renovated a massive loft apartment with his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore). Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is a man on the rise with everything going for him.
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