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Sam, now recovered, frees her and pushes a heavy scaffold onto Carl, crippling him. Carl holds Molly at gunpoint and demands the money Oda Mae withdrew from the bank. Carl forces his way into Molly's apartment while she and Oda Mae flee upstairs. As Carl flees, demons drag Willie's soul to Hell.Īfter Molly calls the police, Oda Mae lets Sam possess her body and he slow-dances with Molly, unaware that using her body saps his energy. Sam terrorizes Willie until he runs screaming into the street and is killed after being struck by a car. Sam warns Oda Mae and her sisters and instructs them to hide just before Carl and Willie arrive. Carl visits Molly and learns that Oda Mae was the person who initiated the withdrawal.

Sam starts to haunt Carl, who becomes frantic to find the money once he realizes it has been withdrawn. Afterwards, Sam convinces Oda Mae to pose as 'Rita Miller' and withdraw the money, which he has her give to charity.

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Determined to protect Molly, Sam enlists the help of a poltergeist haunting the New York City subway to teach him how to move physical objects. Sam eventually discovers it was Carl who had Willie attack him to obtain his book of bank passwords, in order to transfer laundered money for drug dealers into one account under the fictitious name 'Rita Miller'. Molly goes to the police, who have no criminal file for Willie Lopez but they show her Oda Mae's lengthy record that includes fraud charges and several aliases, leaving Molly disheartened.

Sam pesters Oda Mae by singing to her all night until she agrees to tell Molly about Willie. When Oda Mae hears Sam's voice, she realizes she must have inherited her mother's true psychic gift. He promises to return to Sam and Molly's apartment to continue looking for what he came for.Īfter leaving Willie's apartment, Sam comes across charlatan Oda Mae Brown's psychic reading parlor, where she works with her sisters. Sam follows the mugger, Willie Lopez, back to his apartment, and learns that the mugging was planned when Willie makes a call to an unknown person. When the mugger enters their apartment in search of something a few minutes later, Sam scares their cat into attacking him and he flees. Weeks later, in an effort to raise her spirits, Carl takes Molly for a walk. Sam is shocked to realize he is a ghost, but when angels appear to take his soul to Heaven, he returns to Molly. One night, after attending the theater with Molly, Sam is killed when a mugger tries to steal his wallet. Ghost earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay for Rubin.īanker Sam Wheat and his girlfriend, artist Molly Jensen, renovate and move into a Manhattan loft with the help of Sam's friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise going towards the score and performances of the cast. Ghost was theatrically released on July 13, 1990, to commercial success, grossing $505 million against a budget of $22–23 million and emerging as the highest-grossing film of 1990 and at the time of its release, was the third-highest-grossing film of all time. The plot centers on Sam Wheat (Swayze), a murdered banker, whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend, Molly Jensen (Moore), from the person who killed him – through the help of the psychic Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg). Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film directed by Jerry Zucker from a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli, and Rick Aviles.

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