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| Year: | 1990 |
| Rating: | 6.9(51022) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Jerry Zucker |
| Actors: | Patrick Swayze Tony Goldwyn Stanley Lawrence Christopher J. Keene Demi Moore Susan Breslau |
| "Before Sam was murdered he told Molly he'd love and protect her forever." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
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| Jerry Zucker | |
| Actors | |
| Patrick Swayze | as Sam Wheat |
| Tony Goldwyn | as Carl Bruner |
| Stanley Lawrence | as Elevator Man |
| Christopher J. Keene | as Elevator Man |
| Rick Kleber | as Mover |
| Macka Foley | as Mover |
| Rick Aviles | as Willie Lopez |
| Phil Leeds | as Emergency Room Ghost |
| John Hugh | as Surgeon |
| Sam Tsoutsouvas | as Minister |
| Vincent Schiavelli | as Subway Ghost |
| Thom Curley | as Workman in Loft |
| Stephen Root | as Police Sgt. |
| Augie Blunt | as Orlando |
| Derek Thompson | as Ortisha's Friend |
| J. Christopher Sullivan | as Man Ghost |
| Tom Finnegan | as Bank Guard |
| Bruce Jarchow | as Lyle Furgeson |
| William Cort | as Bank Co-Worker |
| Said Faraj | as Cab Driver |
| Mike Jittlov | as Dark Spirits |
| Actresses | |
| Demi Moore | as Molly Jensen |
| Susan Breslau | as Susan |
| Martina Deignan | as Rose |
| Sharon Breslau | as Cemetery Ghost |
| Angelina Estrada | as Rosa Santiago |
| Armelia McQueen | as Oda Mae's Sister |
| Gail Boggs | as Oda Mae's Sister |
| Whoopi Goldberg | as Oda Mae Brown |
| Laura Drake | as Policewoman |
| Alma Beltran | as Woman Ghost |
| Vivian Bonnell | as Ortisha |
| Charlotte Zucker | as Bank Officer |
| Sondra Rubin | as Nun |
| Faye Brenner | as Nun |
| Minnie Summers Lindsey | as Apartment Woman |
| Mabel Lockridge | as Apartment Woman |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 24 July 1989 - 5 December 1989 |
| Budget: | USD 22,000,000 |
| Gross: |
Worldwide - 290,000,000 USD (except USA) Australia - 21,311,049 AUD (1990) |
| Plot: | Sam Wheat was murdered during a date with his girlfriend Molly. Sam's spirit, in a mysterious manner, remains on the Earth, unseen to normal people. After following his murderer, Sam realizes that his death was not an accident, and that molly is in danger. Sam's ghost try to warn Molly, but she does not know it is really there. Then he meets a spiritualist named Oda Mae Brown, who can hear the dead. Sam speaks to hear and convince her to help him save Molly. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"UNCHAINED MELODY" Written by Alex North and Hy Zaret "I'M HENRY THE VIII, I AM" by Fred Murray & R.P. Weston "KYRIE OPENING" by David Hykes Performed by David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir Courtesy of The Harmonic Arts Society, Inc. "NO HIDING PLACE" Arranged by Evelyn Starks and Dorothy Love Coates Performed by Dorothy Love Coates and The Original Gospel Harmonettes Courtesy of Specialty Records, Inc. "SINCE I FELL FOR YOU" Written by Buddy Johnson Performed by The Righteous Brothers Courtesy of PolyGram Special Products, A division of PolyGram Records, Inc. "UNCHAINED MELODY" Written by Alex North and Hy Zaret Performed by The Righteous Brothers Courtesy of PolyGram Special Products, A division of PolGram Records, Inc. |
Goofs
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Crew: Camera and TV monitor can be seen in the bottom of the mirror in the move-in scene. Stage light equipment can be seen in the mirror soon after Carl passes in front of it. Continuity: The wet clay coating Molly's and Sam's hands. Continuity: Molly Jensen drops and damages the corner of the shoebox containing her dead boyfriends' things. In a later scene, when bad guy Carl Bruner steals the box from her closet, the box is in perfect condition. Continuity: When Sam is following Willie to his apartment, Willie opens up the door and after Sam goes through the door, it automatically closes, but when Carl visits Willie, the door remains open. SYNC: When Molly and Oda Mae climb the ladder and walk the rafters, both Molly and Carl can be heard shouting, but neither moves their mouth. Continuity: When Sam is on the train, he is pushed violently through the rails, cabin doors, but hits his head on the last cart. Continuity: When Sam is getting up after trying to kick the can, the still intangible ghost bumps into the soda can, which moves. Continuity: When Ode Mae first goes to see Molly she is wearing one pair of shoes; as she turns the corner her shoes have changed colors. Continuity: When Sam is shot and Molly is holding him, her sleeves are covered in blood. Later, at the police station her sleeves are clean. Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Carl is being dragged away by the shadows, the wires that are helping him float are visible. Continuity: SPOILER: When Molly and Oda Mae are running from Carl they lift a ladder so that Carl cannot reach it. In the first shot they have nearly pulled up the entire ladder and it is almost in a horizontal position. In the next shot, Carl grabs for the ladder as it is in a vertical position, not very far from the ground. Continuity: SPOILER: When Carl pins Oda Mae down toward the end and he has the gun on her, he cocks the pistol 3 or 4 times as he threatens to shoot her. Continuity: After Oda Mae gives away the check, she says goodbye to Sam and we see a group of extras crossing the street. When the angle switches to the other side of the street, we see one of the same extras (African American lady, box cut hair) crossing the street again. Crew: When Carl is preparing the account for "Rita Miller", the camera and operator are reflected in the computer screen. Continuity: When Sam is chasing Willie through the apartment and Willie hides in the bathroom, you can see the shower curtain. When they show Willie on the reflection of the mirror, is a different shower curtain. CHAR: In the credits, Bruce Jarchow is credited as Lyle Furgeson, but the scene at his desk has a sign with the spelling of his name changed to Ferguson. Fact errors: With the closing credits the spelling of "Cemetery Ghost" is wrong. The credits spell it as Cemetary Ghost, the correct spelling should be CEMETERY. PLOT: When Oda Mae and Sam first go to Molly's apartment together, Sam tells Oda Mae the full address of Willie Lopez, which she then repeats out loud to Molly, but she leaves out the apartment number (4D). Later, when Molly repeats the address to Carl, she knows that it is apartment 4D, which is impossible because Oda Mae never relayed this information to her and she can't hear Sam. FAIR: SPOILER: When Willie is hit by the car, his body is split in two, the spirit body that we see fall on the street, and the physical body lying on the car that the people run to help. Continuity: When Molly slaps Carl after he tells her to come for a walk, the shoebox containing personal things is in her left arm. The camera then goes to Sam, who walks slowly towards them, and then the camera goes back to Molly, the box is now on the floor, and she picks it up as if she had dropped it, but we do not see this, and there is no noise indicating this. Continuity: When the Subway Ghost kicks the cigarette vending machine in anger, you can clearly see that the rows of cigarettes were rigged to go straight down and out the chute, which would not occur simply because the glass was broken. Also, there were also many more packs of cigarettes on the ground than could have come out of the machine, and were obviously pre-placed. Continuity: SPOILER: The length and distribution of Molly's bangs changes in the last scene with Sam. GEOG: We are told that Willie Lopez lives in Prospect Place. But when we see him go home when Sam follows, he gets off the J train in Bushwick. Also there is no J train at Franklin St in downtown Manhattan. You would have to take the 1 train. Continuity: SPOILER: Why, once Sam has learnt to touch things, including humans, can he not dance with Molly? Despite touching Willy in his flat, Sam can only dance with Molly by getting into Oda Mae's body, surely he should have just been able to dance directly? Revealing mistakes: When Willie is fighting with Sam just prior to shooting him you can see that the gun Willie is using (Walther PPK or similar clone) is in the safe position (i.e. manual safety/decocker is vertical rather than horizontal). Such a gun should not fire. Revealing mistakes: When "Oda Mae" and "Molly" are straddling the rafters, they are obviously stunt doubles. Fact errors: Giving away a fraudulently obtained money order, even to a charity, would not have protected the defrauder from prosecution for the way it was obtained. GEOG: Sam boards an IND line train at Franklin Avenue, which is underground. We do not see him change trains. We see a IRT (#9) train emerging from underground to an elevated station (Dykmon Street, which is uptown). He gets off a BMT line train at the Myrtle/Wykoff station, which is elevated, in Brooklyn. This trip is impossible without changing trains, also Sam and Molly lived in SoHo, which is downtown and the Myrtle/Wykoff station is in Brooklyn. Continuity: There are a number of inconsistencies concerning Sam touching things when his hands should have gone through. For example, when Sam is in the hospital after his murder he gets out of the chair by grabbing hold of the arm-rests to push himself up out of the chair. CHAR: In the exchange between Molly and Lyle the bank officer, she asks him if that was Oda Mae, and wanted to know what business they had just done. Lyle tells Molly her name (Rita Miller) and said that she was closing an account. By federal law, bank personnel can never discuss the details of one customer's transaction or identity with another. However, Lyle is a "social moron," very likely to have forgotten or not cared enough about the law to keep himself from discussing it with Molly. Continuity: SPOILER: When Carl throws Molly into the rubbish bins on the rooftop, the bins fall over twice. FAIR: SPOILER: When Carl has the knife in Molly's kitchen, it visibly wobbles and is clearly made of rubber. However, if you look closely you can see it is simply shaking, as Carl is beyond terrified at realizing Sam's ghost is real. Continuity: Molly enters her apartment and locks the deadbolt. After being scratched, Willie runs out the door, without opening the deadbolt. When the door closes behind him, you can see that the deadbolt is still locked. The door would neither open or close. Revealing mistakes: In the very end when Sam is ascending into the light, the 1990s green screen technology is very obvious around the edges of his body. Continuity: Sam arrives with Carl as Molly reaches dangerously out the window in an attempt to help the movers bring in an angel statue. She is clearly wearing denim jeans; however, moments later when she is showing Carl her latest work, she is in sweat pants. |
Quotes
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Sam Wheat: I'm Henry the 8th I am. Henry the 8th I am I am. I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before. [Looking longingly at a pack of cigarettes] Subway Lord: Ahh what I wouldn't give for a drag! Just one drag! Molly Jensen: I love you. Sam Wheat: Ditto. Molly Jensen: I love you. I really love you. Sam Wheat: Ditto. Sam: I love you, Molly. I've always loved you. Molly: Ditto. Oda Mae Brown: He's stuck, that's what it is. He's in between worlds. You know it happens sometimes that the spirit gets yanked out so fast that the essence still feels it has work to do here. Sam Wheat: Would you stop rambling? Oda Mae Brown: I don't think I'm rambling, I'm just answering the question. He's got a' attitude now. Sam Wheat: I don't have an attitude. Oda Mae Brown: Yes, you do have an attitude. If you didn't have an attitude, you would not have raised your voice at me now would you? Sam Wheat: God dammit... Oda Mae Brown: Don't you "God dammit" me. Don't you take the Lord's name in vain with me. I don't take that! Sam Wheat: Would you relax? Oda Mae Brown: No, you relax, you're the dead guy! Oda Mae Brown: I know you don't think I'm giving this 4 million dollars to a bunch of nuns! Sam: Think of it this way, you'll go to Heaven. Oda Mae Brown: I don't want to go to Heaven, I want to go to the bank and cash a GODDAMN CHECK! Sam: I love you Molly. I always have. Molly: Ditto. [last lines] Sam Wheat: It's amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. See ya. Molly: See ya. Bye. Oda Mae Brown: Why don't you go haunt a house? Rattle some chains or something. Sam Wheat: They're going to kill you, Carl. You and Willie! You're going to be fertilizer. They're gonna bury you right next to Jimmy Hoffa. Molly Jensen: Carl, are you all right? Carl Bruner: It's just my stomach! Do you have anything like Pepto Bismol or something like that? Sam Wheat: Cyanide! Oda Mae Brown: I don't know you! I don't know Sam, but let me tell you what he did to me. He kept me up all night singing "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am." Molly Jensen: That's how he got me to go out with him. [Oda Mae just gave a four-million-dollar check to some nuns] Sam Wheat: I'm proud of you, Oda Mae! Oda Mae Brown: You know something, Sam? I don't care if you're proud of me. You just stay away from me from now on. What is that nun going to do with it? She can't even buy underwear. Sam: Molly, you're in danger. Oda Mae Brown: You can't just blurt it out like that! And quit moving around, because you're starting to make me dizzy. I'll just tell her in my own way. [pause; then, to Molly] Molly, you in danger girl. [When handing the check to the nuns] Sam: Hand her the check. Oda Mae Brown: I will! Sam Wheat: Write it down. Oda Mae Brown: [to Molly Jensen] He wants you to write it down. Sam Wheat: No, YOU write it down! Oda Mae Brown: I ain't no DAMN secretary! Oda Mae Brown: [spiritually possessed by Orlando] Ortisha? Where you at? I can't hardly see! Ortisha: Orlando? Orlando! Oda Mae Brown: Damn baby, what'd you do to yo hair? Ortisha: Orlando, you like it? It's "autumn sunrise." [at a bank meeting, Oda Mae has improvised several lines] Sam Wheat: Don't embellish. Oda Mae Brown: Jawohl. Oda Mae Brown: [to Sam] You're white. I knew it. Why me? Oda Mae Brown: Do you hear me talking to you? Workman in Loft: I hear you! Oda Mae Brown: Ah shut up, nobody's talking to you. Workman in Loft: Didn't you ever hear of a phone? Oda Mae Brown: Wanna kiss my butt? [pause] Oda Mae Brown: I'm not gonna stand out here forever! Workman in Loft: Thank god! Oda Mae Brown: Ah man, shut up! Sam Wheat: How long have you been here? Subway Lord: Since they pushed me. Sam Wheat: Someone pushed you? Subway Lord: Yeah, someone pushed me. Sam Wheat: Who? Subway Lord: What, you don't believe me? You think I fell? You think I jumped? Well, fuck you! Sam Wheat: [Edited for TV Version] How long have you been here? Subway Lord: Since they pushed me. Sam Wheat: Someone pushed you? Subway Lord: Yeah. Someone pushed me. Sam Wheat: Who? Subway Lord: What you don't believe me? You think I fell? You think I jumped? Well, forget you! It wasn't my time. I wasn't supposed to go! I'm not supposed to be here! [kicks the glass of vending machine] Sam Wheat: [scaring/torturing Carl] Now do you believe in ghosts? Carl Bruner: You're lying to me! Don't *lie to me*! [losing it] Carl Bruner: Goddamn it! [Sam regains his ability to move things and goes for Carl] Carl Bruner: [holding a gun on Molly] I'll kill her, Sam! [shouts] Carl Bruner: I swear to God, I'll kill her. Sam Wheat: [at the bank meeting] Tell her to send this to the third-floor file because you have a transaction to make. Oda Mae Brown: Can you send this to the third-floor file? I have a transfusion to make. [to the bank employee after messing up the signature card] Oda Mae Brown: I'm sorry, but, could I get another one? I... uh... signed the wrong name. Sam: [after he spots Molly at the bank] Oda Mae, we've gotta go! Oda Mae Brown: Well, I'd best go now! It's been a PLEASURE doing business with you! A real pleasure! Now may I keep this-? Oda Mae Brown: [Sam pushes her chair to get her moving] Say hi to Bob and Snookie for me, I'll see ya! [She races off, talking frantically to Sam] Oda Mae Brown: Now are you going to go away Sam? 'Cause you know what, I got work to do. Sam Wheat: No. Oda Mae Brown: Fine then stay there. [Turning to her customers who are not paying attention] Eh, excuse me, EXCUSE me! You ready yet? Oda Mae Brown: Four million dollars? Lyle Furgeson: Yes. Four million dollars. And um, how would you like that, Mrs. Miller? Oda Mae Brown: Tens and twenties? Sam Wheat: No a cashier's check! Oda Mae Brown: Actually... I think better a cashier's check. Lyle Furgeson: Right... Oda Mae Brown: He's cute. White, but cute. Emergency Room Ghost: [seeing Sam's body] Shot, huh? That'll do it every time. Emergency Room Ghost: [as the Lights come for a dying man] Lucky bastard. It could've been the other ones. You never know. Ortisha's Friend: Can we get started soon? Oda Mae Brown: Oh, chill out. Chill. Out! Oda Mae Brown: Julio's coming towards us. I see him! He's coming! He's there! He's dressed in a black suit. Rosa Santiago: [long pause] Black suit? Oda Mae Brown: [pause] Could be blue! Carl Bruner: [Answers the phone nervously] Carl Bruner speaking. Voice: Hi, Carl. Carl Bruner: Mr. Balistrari. Voice: Balistrari? Carl, it's me, John. Carl Bruner: John. John, sorry, um, what - what - what - what's up? |
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