Ghost message from Sam

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Movie
German title Ghost message from Sam
Original title Ghost
Ghost opening title.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Jerry Sugar
script Bruce Joel Rubin
production Howard W. Koch , Lisa Weinstein , Steven-Charles Jaffe
music Maurice Jarre
camera Adam Greenberg
cut Walter Murch
occupation

Ghost - Message from Sam (Original title: Ghost ) is an American fantasy thriller comedy from 1990. The director was Jerry Zucker , the screenplay was written by Bruce Joel Rubin . In addition to Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, the main roles are cast with Whoopi Goldberg and Tony Goldwyn .

action

The banker Sam Wheat and his girlfriend, the artist Molly Jensen, have a happy relationship. Molly often tells Sam that she loves him, to which he almost always replies " ditto ", because he is of the opinion that the three words should not be overused. On their way home from a theater visit, Sam and Molly are ambushed by a mugger. A shot goes off in the scuffle and kills Sam, who sees himself bleeding and lying motionless on the ground. He realizes that he is now a ghost who can see and hear his environment but cannot interact with it and is no longer perceived by other people. In the hospital, he meets another ghost from whom he learns that the dead remain on earth as ghosts when they still have a task to complete.

Sam is always near Molly for the next few days, but cannot make himself noticeable to her. While Molly goes for a walk with Sam's best friend and work colleague Carl Bruner, Sam cannot follow her through the closed door and has to watch helplessly as his killer Willie Lopez breaks into Molly's apartment and looks for something there. When Molly comes home, Willie manages to leave the apartment unnoticed by her, but is followed by Sam to his apartment. Willie speaks to an unknown person on the phone and announces that he will go back to Molly's apartment to continue the search. Sam tries to hit Willie, but only hits nowhere and is not noticed by him.

On the way back he happened to see the store of Oda Mae Brown, a fortune teller and necromancer. However, this is apparently only a fraudster who pretends to be able to contact their customers to contact deceased relatives. During a session, Sam loudly expresses his displeasure with this farce - and is heard from Oda Mae, who is apparently a medium after all , but was previously unknown to her ability. Oda Mae doesn't want to know anything from Sam at first. However, he remains persistent and can finally persuade her to go with him to Molly to warn her about Willie.

To convince Molly, Oda Mae tells her numerous details from the past that Sam gives her and that only he can know, but Molly cannot believe that Sam still exists and wants to warn her. Nevertheless, she goes to the police, but is not taken seriously there. The policeman shows her the files of Oda Mae, which has already appeared several times through scams.

In the subway, Sam learns from an unfriendly ghost how one can influence the real world and move objects through concentration. This finally gives Sam the opportunity to make himself noticeable to a limited extent. He finds out that it was Carl who hired his killer Willie. Carl launders money for a drug lord in the bank . Sam was on the verge of discovering this and changed the access code of the bank account where Carl deposited the money. To get the new code, Willie was supposed to steal Sam's wallet. Now Sam causes Oda Mae to close the bank account with the drug money and donate the cashier's check to charity, which she does only reluctantly. When Carl realizes the account has been deleted, he receives a ghostly message from Sam and realizes that everything Molly told him about Oda Mae must be true. He visits Molly and learns that she saw the fortune teller at the bank that morning.

Fearing the revenge of the drug gang, Carl and Willie go to Oda Mae to get the cashier's check back. Sam warns them and tries to defend them and their sisters by throwing objects through the air. He panics Willie so much that he runs into a car and dies. His spirit is then taken by dark shadows. Sam rushes to Molly with Oda Mae. You can convince Molly that Sam actually still exists. Sam puts himself in Oda Mae's body and is dancing with Molly when Carl shows up with a gun. The two women flee to the attic, followed by Carl. Sam tries to stop Carl. This throws a hook in the direction of Sam, who swings back and breaks the window pane over Carl, whereupon a large shard falls down and kills Carl. Carl's ghost is also haunted by dark shadows.

At that moment a bright light appears and the women can see and hear Sam. At the same time it becomes clear that he has done his job and now has to leave for good. Sam takes a tender farewell to Molly and now tells her directly and for the last time that he loves her, whereupon she replies with "ditto". Then it slowly disappears into the light.

Soundtrack

No. title Interpreter
1 Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers
2 Ghost Maurice Jarre
3 Sam Maurice Jarre
4th Ditto Maurice Jarre
5 Carl Maurice Jarre
6th Molly Maurice Jarre
7th Unchained melody (Orchestral) Maurice Jarre
8th End credits Maurice Jarre
9 Fire escape (bonus track) Maurice Jarre
10 Oda Mae & Carl (bonus track) Maurice Jarre

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Tobias Meister under his dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron.

Actress Voice actor role
Patrick Swayze Ulrich Gressieker Sam Wheat
Demi Moore Maud Ackermann Molly Jensen
Whoopi Goldberg Marianne Gross Oda Mae Brown
Tony Goldwyn Torsten Sense Carl Bruner
Rick Aviles Tobias Master Willie Lopez
Vincent Schiavelli Thomas Petruo Subway spirit
Vivian Bonnell Barbara Ratthey Ortisha
Arsenio Hall Nicolas Boell Arsenio Hall
Bruce Jarchow Norbert Gescher Lyle Furgeson

reception

The lexicon of international films described the film as "skillfully staged" and "soulful".

The film grossed around 506 million US dollars worldwide. The budget for the film was $ 22 million.

Awards

Oscar

Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar in the category “Best Supporting Actress” for her role , and an Oscar also went to Bruce Joel Rubin for Best Original Screenplay . The film was also nominated in three other categories, including the “Best Film” category .

Golden Globe

Whoopi Goldberg received the Golden Globe in the category “Best Supporting Actress” , Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore were nominated for the award in the category “Best Actor”. The film received a nomination in the category “Best Film - Comedy or Musical” .

Other awards

Whoopi Goldberg won the BAFTA Award for her role ; The film was nominated for the BAFTA Award in three other categories.

Demi Moore received the Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in the “Best Lead Actress” category and Whoopi Goldberg in the “Best Supporting Actress” category . The film was awarded as the best fantasy film.

background

The film is one of a series of films that no longer portray metaphysical or spiritual experiences such as near-death experiences , post- death contacts and media experiences as a fairytale fantasy, but as reality. The subject also includes films such as Hereafter by Clint Eastwood (2010), The Haunted House (1993), and Ghost Whisperer - Voices from the Beyond (2005–2010).

Adaptations

The film was also produced as a musical , which has been shown in Berlin, among other places, since the end of 2017.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Ghost - Message from Sam . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Ghost - Message from Sam in the German synchronous file
  3. ↑ Ghost - Message from Sam. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 22, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Ghost. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  5. ↑ On the death hurdle, cinema and metaphysics see page 20, swr.de