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Name: Casper
Released: 1995-5-26
Cast: Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, Ben Stein

Casper

PG
1h 40m
1995

53%

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From director Brad Silberling and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment comes live-action fun house ride filled with laughter, excitement and ghostly surprises. "Ghost therapist" Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman) and his daughter Kat (Christina Ricci) arrive at drafty, old Whipstaff Manor. Its greedy owner Carrigan Crittendon (Cathy Moriarty) has hired Dr. Harvey to exorcise the house's apparitions: a friendly but lonely young ghost names Casper, who's just looking for a friends, and his outrageous uncles Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso (The Ghostly Trio). If the plan works, she and Dibs (Eric Idle), her partner-in-slime, can get their hands on the manor's fabled treasure. Meanwhile, Casper has found a kindred spirit in kat, but The Ghostly Trio will not tolerate "fleshies" in their house. With hilarious antics and dazzling special effects from many of the creators of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Jurassic Park, Casper is a mile-a-minute adventure comedy for the whole family.

Director:

Brad Silberling

Producer:

Colin Wilson, Steven Spielberg

Writer:

Sherri Stoner, Deanna Oliver

Cast:

Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle, Ben Stein, Brad Garrett, Joe Alaskey, Joe Nipote, Malachi Pearson, Rodney Dangerfield

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

53%

Critics Consensus: A meandering, mindless family movie that frequently resorts to special effects and transparent sappiness.

Reviews

io9.com

Cheryl Eddy

Going cartoony not only keeps Casper and crew looking like their comic-book counterparts, it also keeps what passes for menace in this movie on the gentler side.

Casper is a deeply tragic yet oddly wholesome coming-of-age tale about loneliness and grief. Though the film is essentially a meditation on death, it isn’t all doom and gloom. It still has its zany moments and mid-90s charm.

More like a Cinderella story than a gothic horror, this really was one of the most under-rated movies of the 1990s and should keep viewers of all ages engrossed on a slow summer holiday day.

...an erratic but generally passable adaptation that could've easily been much, much worse.

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