Ghost (1990)
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Jerry Zucker
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Synopsis:
A city investment banker is killed by a colleague laundering Mafia money but sticks around as a ghost to mete out justice.
Review:
Archetypal manifestation of Reaganite American politics, this preposterously premised retribution fantasy also asks us to believe that yuppiedom has got so greedy it will resort to murder, surely some kind of own goal. It is essentially, though, a very sticky love story tricked out with a fashionable supernatural concept and comedy asides courtesy of Miss Goldberg. The supposedly moving moments are easy to resist, so obvious is the manipulation at work here. Always, which it resembles, at least felt both more ambitious and more honest. No matter, this was the film that made the money, and lots of it.
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Jerry Zucker
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Synopsis:
A city investment banker is killed by a colleague laundering Mafia money but sticks around as a ghost to mete out justice.
Review:
Archetypal manifestation of Reaganite American politics, this preposterously premised retribution fantasy also asks us to believe that yuppiedom has got so greedy it will resort to murder, surely some kind of own goal. It is essentially, though, a very sticky love story tricked out with a fashionable supernatural concept and comedy asides courtesy of Miss Goldberg. The supposedly moving moments are easy to resist, so obvious is the manipulation at work here. Always, which it resembles, at least felt both more ambitious and more honest. No matter, this was the film that made the money, and lots of it.
Country: US
Technical: col 127m
Director: Jerry Zucker
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Synopsis:
A city investment banker is killed by a colleague laundering Mafia money but sticks around as a ghost to mete out justice.
Review:
Archetypal manifestation of Reaganite American politics, this preposterously premised retribution fantasy also asks us to believe that yuppiedom has got so greedy it will resort to murder, surely some kind of own goal. It is essentially, though, a very sticky love story tricked out with a fashionable supernatural concept and comedy asides courtesy of Miss Goldberg. The supposedly moving moments are easy to resist, so obvious is the manipulation at work here. Always, which it resembles, at least felt both more ambitious and more honest. No matter, this was the film that made the money, and lots of it.