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'''''Ghost''''' is a 1990 movie starring [[Patrick Swayze]], [[Demi Moore]], and [[Whoopi Goldberg]] in the performance that won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar (which she attributes to Swayze insisting on her being cast in the part).▼
▲''Ghost'' is a 1990 movie starring [[Patrick Swayze]], [[Demi Moore]], and [[Whoopi Goldberg]] in the performance that won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar (which she attributes to Swayze insisting on her being cast in the part).
Executive Sam Wheat and his artist girlfriend Molly are a pair of yuppies living in SoHo New York. They're in love, though Sam seems to [[Cannot Spit It Out|have a little difficulty coming right out and saying it]], and can only manage "ditto" when Molly tells him she loves him.
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On their way home one night, Sam is mugged and killed. Here the real story begins, as the violent murder plus the fact that Sam had the unfinished business of never truly telling Molly he loves her causes him to stick around as a ghost. Then Sam discovers there's more to his death than just making him an unfortunate statistic in mugger-prone New York.
If you've ever thought to yourself, "Great movie, but you know what ''Ghost'' was missing? [[The Musical|Musical numbers!]]," you're in luck. ''Ghost''
Not to be confused with the 1997 short film ''Ghosts'', starring [[Michael Jackson]]. Nor the [[Guilty Pleasure]] book ''[[
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* [[Alone
* [[And I Must Scream]]: The fate of Willy and {{spoiler|Carl}} when they die.
* [[Ascend to
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: The Train Ghost.
* [[Big Applesauce]]: Hodgepodge piecing together of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
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** Later, Sam freaks out the [[Big Bad]] by typing "SAM" repeatedly on his computer monitor.
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Inverted, as Oda Mae's conversations with Sam make everybody think she's crazy, but she's not.
* [[Death
* [[Death Is Dramatic]]: Sure as Hell it is...
* [[Dragged Off to Hell]]: Willy, and later {{spoiler|Carl}}. The Hospital Ghost implies this is the fate of other evil people when they die.
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* [[Final Speech]]: Subverted. Sam gets a poignant goodbye to Molly...after he's already dead, and has been dead for some time.
* [[Finding Judas]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Carl}} was plotting behind the scenes, but it wasn't for the greater good, and he really was the villain. He was perfectly willing to seduce Molly or kill her to forward his plans.
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* [[Foreign Remake]]: Would you believe a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113035903/http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2010/12/14/ghost-the-japanesekorean-remake/ Japanese-Korean version]? With a [[Gender Flip]], yet?
* [[Four Is Death]]: ''Four'' million dollars was the cause of this tragedy...
* [[Fright Deathtrap]]
* [[Ghostly Goals]]: Protect his girlfriend.
* [[Go Into the Light]]: The way Sam [[Ascend to
* [[Hands-On Approach]]: The [[Signature Scene]] with the pottery machine.
* [[I Uh You Too]]: "Ditto." {{spoiler|Inverted at the end: when Sam finally manages to say "I love you" to Molly, thereby ensuring his [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence|Ascension to a Higher Plane of Existence]], it's her who replies with "ditto".}}▼
▲* [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]]: {{spoiler|Carl}}, courtesy of a shattered window pane.
* [[Involuntary Charity Donation]]: Whoopi Goldberg's character, the psychic Oda Mae Brown, does a variation of this to the villain - with Sam's help, she's able to steal the money from a special account, turn it into a check and donate it to a nuns' charity.
▲* [[I Uh You Too]]: "Ditto." {{spoiler|Inverted at the end: when Sam finally manages to say "I love you" to Molly, thereby ensuring his [[Ascended to A Higher Plane of Existence|Ascension to a Higher Plane of Existence]], it's her who replies with "ditto".}}
* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]: Sam spends the entire movie in the burgundy polo and jeans he was wearing when he was murdered.
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Sam, in preparation for a big client, practicing saying basic phrases in Japanese.
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* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Oda Mae leaves both Sam and Molly to their own devices after Sam mentions "there's somebody else involved". She probably doesn't want to be added to that list.
* [[Large Ham]]: Vincent Schiavelli as the Subway Ghost.
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* [[Look Both Ways]]: While fleeing from Sam's ghost, Willy gets sandwiched between two speeding cars.
* [[Loud of War]]: Sam terrorizes Oda Mae with Herman's Hermits until she agrees to help him.
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[[Broken Record|Second verse, same as the first...]]
* [[The Mafia]]: It's hinted that {{spoiler|Carl}} is laundering drug money for a mob boss.
* [[Magical Negro]]: Oda Mae, who for a good part of the movie does NOT want to become one. She inherited from her mother, who got it from her grandmother. They say she'll get it too, but never believed them.
* [[Midlife Crisis Car]]: Carl's new sports car. It later turns out to be unfortunate foreshadowing.
* [[Murder
* [[Near-Death Clairvoyance]]: Though the near death experience just ended up as -- death.
* [[Not
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* [[The Obi-Wan]]: The Hospital Ghost, sort of. He tells Sam he'll be a ghost for a long while. He then disappears to meet up with his deceased wife, right after he and Sam see a dead person ascend into Heaven.
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler| The look on Willy's face when he not only realizes he's dead, but he sees the man he killed saying it to his face. [[Holy Shit Quotient|And that's just before the demons take him.]] }}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Vincent Schiavelli as the Subway Ghost.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: The poltergeist effect of throwing things around is described as coming from the emotions, but the ghosts still kick and hit and shove things to make them move as if they were alive.
* [[Poltergeist]]: Apparently this is a skill that can be learned.
* [[The Power of Love]]: It's what keeps Sam there to look after Molly and what allows Molly her chance to hear him and say goodbye when he [[Ascend to
* [[Repurposed Pop Song]]: "Unchained Melody", by the Righteous Brothers, originally about a prisoner hoping his girl will wait for him (hence "unchained"), becomes the love theme for this film. It also put the song back on the charts.
* [[Resurrected Romance]]
* [[Romancing the Widow]]: Inverted - Carl took a shortcut by bumping off her hubby first.
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]: The Subway Ghost is a madman who fell in front of a train, possibly intentionally. He begrudgingly agrees to teach Sam how to manipulate solid objects. Once the lesson is concluded, the ghost succumbs to his delusions and vanishes into the tunnels again.
* [[Sex
* [[Sinister Subway]]: "Like '''[[Big Word Shout|TRAINS?!!]]'''"
* [[Skeptic No Longer]]: Much of the characters get one. Oda Mae was at first skeptical of her and to an extent her families psychic abilities, but when Sam shows up it scares her into believing. {{spoiler| Carl at first doesn't believe Sam's Ghost is around and initially thinks Willy told someone about their arrangement. However when Sam directly messes with him, he believes, but pretends he doesn't around Molly.}} Molly herself is torn between belief and disbelief. At first initially believing Oda Mae, but when proof of Oda Mae's previous cons are dredged up, she doesn't. When Sam shows her undeniable proof, with the penny, she finally believes.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Several ghosts throw out little tidbits of pertinent information for Sam, but notably the Subway Ghost, who teaches him how to move objects. Slightly different in that the character being advised is himself a ghost...
* [[Teach Him Anger]]: The Subway Ghost laughs his ass off when Sam fails to move a soda can. This causes Sam to get furious enough to kick the can like David Beckham, earning a friendly congratulations from his tutor.
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* [[Two Roads Before You]]: Sam sees a light emanating from the sky after he dies. But he turns away from it to be with Molly, and it seals shut.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Starting when {{spoiler|Carl realizes he can't access the stolen money}} and lasting somewhere around the entire third act. Culminating at the end, where he winds up getting a {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]}} as a result of trying to win a physical fight against a ghost.
* [[Visual Innuendo]]: Featuring [[Overly Narrow Superlative|the world's only PG-13 rated clay-pottery-throwing scene]]
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