Ghost 🎥 1990 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Banker Sam Wheat and his artist girlfriend Molly Jensen move into a Tribeca loft with the help of Sam’s best friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. One night, the couple is attacked on the street by a mugger, and though Sam appears to chase him away, he returns to a devastated Molly cradling his bloodied corpse and realizes he has died. A bright beam of light shines down on Sam, but he stays with Molly, and the light disappears. As a ghost, a despondent Sam remains by Molly’s side.

He is unable to interact with the physical world, and the other ghosts he encounters are unhelpful. Sometime later, the mugger breaks into Molly’s apartment, but Sam manages to drive him away by scaring her cat, which scratches his face. While pursuing the mugger, Sam is attacked by a hostile ghost on the subway train who can move physical objects. Sam follows the mugger back to his apartment. He learns that the man’s name is Willie Lopez and that he deliberately targeted Sam. He later encounters Oda Mae Brown, a charlatan psychic medium, but he realizes she can hear him. He demands that she help him warn Molly that she is in danger. Though reluctant to help, Oda Mae agrees after Sam keeps her awake with his singing.

Despite her intimate knowledge of Sam’s and Molly’s relationship, Oda Mae struggles to convince Molly that the afterlife is real. However, she believes once Sam tells Oda Mae to say “ditto”. Molly tells the police and Carl about Willie Lopez, but the police dismiss the story and disclose Oda Mae’s extensive history of fraud, leaving Molly disheartened. Meanwhile, Sam follows Carl and learns that he hired Willie to rob Sam of his book of bank passwords. He needs them to launder $4 million in drug money through an account held by the fictional “Rita Miller” for his criminal employers.

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