Nothing more, nothing less.Ī very heartwarming, charming and smart movie, with a flawless funny script, original and great special effects, and with powerful performances. Just what a pure Hollywood film needs to be. Not the most substantive film, but so what? It's funny, it's sad, it's romantic, it's thrilling. When he wants you to feel Molly's sadness, a major close up of her crying face and falling tears is in frame. When the scene is meant to make you laugh he doesn't get in the way of the joke - nothing else happens. He keeps it simple, he knows that when a scene is meant to make you swoon he puts it on overdrive (the use of 'Unchained Melody' in the pottery scene is brilliant). Jerry Zucker assembles this film amazingly well. While Goldberg got the Academy Award and Moore became an A-lister, Swayze is the one that anchors the film.

And Swayze proves to have just as much chemistry with Goldberg as he does with Moore. Speaking of Molly Jensen and her doomed lover Sam Wheat (the titular Ghost), they are played with uncomplicated effectiveness by star-on-the-rise Demi Moore and hot-after-'Dirty Dancing' Patrick Swayze. She carries the film's comedy squarely on her shoulder but doesn't venture into cartoonish territory allowing Oda Mae's journey to be just as important to the viewer as Sam and Molly's. 'Ghost' takes advantage of Whoopi Goldberg at her best and she plays Oda Mae Brown with a gusto that makes her irresistible. You become invested in the central relationship. This allows the viewer to just engross themselves into the lives of the characters without having too much to figure out. The plot is very basic and doesn't try to fool you with too many twists and turns - keeping the twists to just one very effective one at the film's climax. 'Ghost' is smart enough to work off a very uncomplicated script. And while many may scoff at the film as pure fluff, their scoffs unfairly overlook 'Ghost''s amazing balance of drama, comedy and action - a feat that is very hard to achieve in films. 'Ghost' is one of those films that is filmmaking at its most effective: It is uncomplicated, entertaining and engrossing with surprisingly good performances.

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