Ghost

Trivia: Writer Bruce Rubin's mother has a cameo in this movie. She portrays the nun who collapses after seeing how much money is on the check.

Trivia: The sound effects of the screaming and howling of the demons that drag Carl and Willy to hell is lots of babies crying, slowed down.

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Trivia: Bruce Willis turned down the role of Sam because he didn't think the film would work.

Trivia: The director, Jerry Zucker, always places his mother in a cameo role. In this film she's the bank clerk that Oda Mae asks "May I keep this pen?"

Trivia: Believe it or not, the producers asked Paul Hogan to play the role of Sam but Hogan turned it down because he claimed he was too much of a larrikin to play that part. Hogan, later made a movie called Almost an Angel which was a spoof of Ghost.

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Continuity mistake: Where Swazye and Moore are at the pottery wheel, seconds after their hands and arms had been smeared with clay, they're clean.

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Suggested correction: The director explained this in the commentary. The scene where they are clean isn't meant to be immediately after the clay pot scene. It was just the same evening.

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Question: Was there any reason why the subway ghost was angry at Sam for being in the same train with him?

Answer: For one, he was mostly insane, with periodic lucid periods. He saw the subway area as his personal property and did not want another ghost moving into and challenging his established territory.

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