Today’s movie is a
drama with a scene that happens on September 24. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
GHOST
Sam Wheat, an up-and-coming
investment banker has just moved in with Mollie, an accomplished potter. Sam
finds discrepancies in some accounts at work. Sam’s friend Carl Brunner offers
to investigate this issue for him, but Sam says he will handle the matter.
Later that night, returning from the theater with Millie, they are mugged and
Sam is killed. Sam soon discovers he is now a ghost. Later when the mugger
enters their apartment, Sam saves Mollie from harm. Sam follows the mugger,
Willie Lopez, and learns he is looking for something at the orders of someone
else. Sam visits a psychic named Oda Mae Brown and learns she can hear him. He
blackmails her into calling Mollie, and then visiting her, in order to warn
Mollie about the mugger. Sam follows Carl to Willie Lopez’s apartment and
learns Carl was involved in laundering $4 million dollars for the mob and
needed Sam’s security codes to move the money. Lopez was just supposed to steal
Sam’s wallet to get the codes. The police don’t believe Oda Mae’s story because
she has a police record. Carl gets the codes and tries to come onto Mollie. Sam
forces a manic subway ghost to show him how to move solid objects. Willie tries
to kill Oda Mae. On September 24, 1989 [1:22:11 to 1:38:47], Carl moves all the
money into one account in the name of “Rita Miller”. Oda Mae, masquerades as “Rita Miller”, and with Sam’s help,
withdraws the money from the account. At Sam’s insistence she gives the $4
million to some nuns instead of keeping it for herself. Mollie unwittingly reveals to Carl that Oda
Mae was the person who took the money. Carl learns about Sam and threatens
Mollie. Carl and Willie try to kill Oda Mae. Sam terrorizes Willie so much that
he ends up being killed by a car. Willie’s soul is dragged off to Hell. Oda Mae
and Sam finally convince Mollie that Sam is really there and that Carl was
responsible for Sam’s death and is now trying to kill her. Carl comes after Oda
Mae and Mollie, but they manage to fight him off. Carl is killed by Sam and his
soul is dragged off to hell. With his task done, Sam says goodbye to Mollie and
his soul goes to heaven.
A melodramatic, but watchable
movie. This is a ‘chick flick’, but it’s interesting enough that guys won’t
fall asleep. Maintains a good mix of drama and comedy throughout.
Date given in film at 1:29:12 on
withdrawal slip
Producers - Steven-Charles Jaffe,
Bruce Joel Rubin, Howard W. Koch, Lisa Weinstein and Lauren Ray
Awards – This movie won the Best
Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress(Goldberg) Oscars. It was also
nominated for the Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score at
the 63rd Academy Awards
Director - Jerry Zucker
Runtime - 2 hours 6 minutes
Released - July 13, 1990
Starring –
Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat
Demi Moore as Molly Jensen
Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown
Tony Goldwyn as Carl Bruner
Rick Aviles as Willie Lopez
Vincent Schiavelli as subway
ghost
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014
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