For 25 years we've been choking up at the simple word 'Ditto.' Ghost, the surprise number one box office draw of 1990 and winner of multiple Academy Awards, is one of those rare perfect pictures. It's a romantic weepie and it's a suspense thriller.
It's a supernatural fantasy and it's a spiritual catharsis. It's got very funny comedy and big Hollywood glamor.
It's no wonder it's stayed with us long after it has ascended into a heavenly light. But it didn't look like such a slam dunk at first. Indeed, before was cast, the producers hoped that they could pair with her then-husband. He passed on the project, thinking it would not work. (The joke's on him, he ended up playing a between-worlds ghost in The Sixth Sense just nine years later.). An Original Screenplay Ghost emerged as an original concept by Bruce Joel Rubin.
Jul 13, 1990 Gothamites Sam and Molly see their romance shattered when a street thug kills Sam during a mugging. But love endures beyond the grave when a spectral Sam learns that Molly is in danger and he must find a way to warn her before she suffers his fate. Ghost 1990 Trailer In this movie, a couple loves with each other and live happily but one day the man is killed by a thug, and now the women life is also in danger.
Rubin came out of the underground American film movement of the early 1970s, most notably as a collaborator with Brian De Palma on experimental left wing films like Hi, Mom! (a fascinating time capsule featuring a very young.) He travelled to India, Tibet and Nepal, studying religion and culture, and his first writing credit was Douglas Trumbull's prescient virtual reality science fiction slash paranoid high tech psychedelic freak-out film Brainstorm.
(If you want to see emerge from the precipice of death with a weird looking gadget on his head, this is the one for you.) Ghost was shot at the same time Adrian Lyne filmed Jacob's Ladder, an even darker government death trip, this time set among unwitting Vietnam War vets battling LSD flashbacks.
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