Ghost (1990)
- Jerry Zucker originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- The incredible score for Ghost was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- The original script for Ghost was written over a decade before production finally began in 1990.
Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller directed by Jerry Zucker. Patrick Swayze stars as Sam Wheat, a banker who is murdered during a mugging and discovers his spirit remains on Earth, unable to move on because his death was not random โ it was orchestrated by someone he trusted. Desperate to warn his grieving girlfriend Molly, played by Demi Moore, of the danger she's in, Sam enlists the reluctant help of Oda Mae Brown, a fraudulent psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg who is stunned to discover she can actually hear Sam's voice.
Ghost was a massive cultural phenomenon, earning $505 million worldwide on a $22 million budget, making it the highest-grossing film of 1990. The pottery wheel scene, set to the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody," became one of the most iconic romantic sequences in cinema history and has been parodied countless times. Whoopi Goldberg's Oda Mae was a comedic tour de force โ her escalating panic at discovering her fake psychic abilities have suddenly become real was hilarious, and her performance earned the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The film also won Best Original Screenplay.
