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Ghost (1990) - 21 corrections

Directed by Jerry Zucker, starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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When Willie Lopez is mowed down in the street, his body is shown landing on the pavement near the wheels of a vehicle. When the camera comes back to part where Willie's soul leaves the body, his dead body is now on the hood of the vehicle and not in the street. [It is his ghost that is shown thrown and landing on the pavement. This is obvious when his ghost, the thrown body, gets up and walks to the cars where the accident occured.]
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Willy gets inside Molly's apartment very quickly after Carl gets her to go out and take a walk with him. He's unable to get what he came for, and then goes straight to his house, where he contacts somebody on the phone - it can only be Carl. His explanation for why he couldn't get it? "She came home." But since it can only be Carl he was talking to (this is made clear by Carl's visiting Willy later on) Carl knew perfectly well that Molly came home. It's Carl that Molly was with - he'd have known full well that she left his company. [There could have been any number of other reasons why Willy couldn't get what he came after. He was simply "stating the obvious" since Carl asked.]
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When Sam returns to Oda Mae's, a few other ghosts are seen entering. When they enter, it makes the sound effect for a ghost passing through a solid object. However, the door is wide open so they aren't passing through it. [But there are ghosts entering the room through the wall, they're just off-camera.]
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When Carl is being dragged away by the demons, you can see the cable line that he's attached to. [I saw the movie on DVD yesterday and the cable was not visible.]
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After Oda Mae was talking to Molly in her home for the first time, Oda Mae leaves the room annoyed. When she says "Have a nice life, and you, have a nice death", she points to the wrong characters. [She's pretty annoyed when she leaves. Character mistake while flustered doesn't make a movie mistake.]
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When Sam is terrorizing Willy in Oda Mae's bathroom, Sam turns on the sink faucet and the mirror above the sink is clear. In the very next shot, steam has instantly appeared on the mirror for Sam to write "Boo" on. [It doesn't take long for my water to fog up my bathroom mirror. If the hot water is turned up on your heater tank, it's really no challenge whatsoever to accomplish this in seconds.]
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When Sam plans to withdraw the money from Rita Miller's account to foil Carl's plot to launder money, Sam tells Oda Mae he needs her to get some of her fake IDs. The only way he would know that Oda Mae once made fake IDs is if he was with Molly at the police station when Oda Mae's police record was pulled and the officer told Molly that Oda Mae was arrested for making fake IDs. Sam was not with Molly, as he was already dead. [Exactly. His ghost saw the whole thing.]
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How did Carl and Willy know where Oda Mae lived? [It doesn't take much to find someone's address. She could have been listed, for all we know. If not, Carl's a sharp guy who works with computers. He could very easily have come up with her address, especially if she didn't do anything to hide it.]
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When the ghost on the subway gets angry he throws Sam through the train. How does Sam stop so abruptly? It's as if he's hit the outside of a carriage and stopped when he should have just kept going. [According to the director's commentary, Sam's mind created the 'rules' for the physics of being a ghost, i.e. he had to learn to be able to walk through walls/ doors etc. In Sam's mind he was still bound by the rules of the living world which means he would stop when he hit the end of the carriage.]
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The whole time Sam is a ghost, he is trying to touch things but can't supposedly, until the ghost in the subway shows him how. But during that whole time that he couldn't touch things, Sam could still go on the subway, (he would be able to jump through the subway doors, but would not fall through the floor when he landed) sit on couches, (he would sit on the couch, the cushions would move, but I'm sure if he tried to move the couch he wouldn't be able to) go up stairs, etc. It was a major part of the movie that he could not touch things, yet, he was touching things the whole time. [In the DVD commentary, the director explains about believing that as a ghost you can do something easy that you always did when you were alive such as walk up steps and sit down. Its all explained in the commentary.]
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In the scene where the penny is pushed up the side of the door, the head is facing upwards. In the next shot, the head's position has moved 90 degrees to the right. [You can see the penny turn gradually as it is pushed up the door. ]
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When Oda Mae is closing the account and getting out her ID she dumps out the contents of her purse. In the next shot and all of the following shots, the plethora of items on the desk is replaced with a white paper. [Before Lyle Ferguson leaves the desk, Oda Mae starts putting things back into her purse. The scene cuts away until Lyle returns, giving Oda Mae plenty of time to put everything back.]
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When Oda Mae takes four million dollars from the account, she hands him one tiny piece of ID. I doubt they would let her take that much money with just one ID. [Until the Patriot Act went into effect banks were not legally required to request any ID, even for such a large sum. Any such requests were down to the individual company's policy.]
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In one of the last scenes, Oda Mae, Sam and Molly are at Molly's house, waiting for the police. By now Sam has learned to touch things and people. But he does not seem to be able to touch Molly and needs to borrow the body of Oda Mae to touch Molly and dance with her. [He needs to borrow Oda Mae's body so that Molly can feel him, not the other way around.]
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When Sam is on the train and sees the other ghost, the 'train ghost' gets up and looks at Sam, then starts yelling at him. How does the train ghost know that Sam is a another ghost? Sam certainly can't tell between ghosts and humans. [Sam is still learning to deal with being a ghost and has not learned how to tell dead people from live people yet. The other ghost has been one for a long time and can recognize other ghosts. The ghost in the hospital was able to recognize Sam as being a ghost along with the lady in the cemetery. Some things have to be learned just like Sam had to learn how to move objects.]
Edit Corrected by Vernon Gilmore
You are you not allowed to smoke on a NYC subway nor is any advertising for cigarettes permitted. So there would not have been a cigarette vending machine for the train ghost to smash. [I'm pretty sure that this law was not in effect when the movie was filmed (89 - early 90) and probably not until 1995. I know you could still smoke on airplanes in 1990.]
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During the second time Oda May and Sam are talking, Oda May keeps looking right at Sam even though she insists that she can't see where he is. [Oda May can't see him, true, but she can follow the sound of his voice. She can hear where he is, therefore she turns her head that direction as well.]
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At the end, after Sam moves the penny to convince Molly that Oda Mae is telling the truth, they all go into the apartment. Now, knowing that a murderer, Carl, is on his way to come and get them, you would think they would all get out of there as soon as possible. Instead, they wait around until Carl shows up, and then act all surprised and run when he gets there. [They're waiting for the police to arrive. Molly calls the sergeant just before Sam takes Oda May's body.]
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When Sam gets killed and gives chase to the killer, he steps into a puddle and makes it splash. [He made the puddle splash because he was probably so angry at the killer that he made the water move without realising it. He is capable of moving things, he just doesn't know how he does it yet.]
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You can see Sam's shadow the whole time. [True, WE can see Sam's shadow, because we can also see Sam. But no-one else can see his shadow. So this isn't a mistake as such.]
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