Jarre’s score was nominated for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Original Score, though it lost to John Barry’s work for Dances with Wolves. That song appears in both instrumental form and in the 1965 recording by the Righteous Brothers. The soundtrack also featured the 1955 song “Unchained Melody”, composed by Alex North with lyrics by Hy Zaret. The music for Ghost was written by veteran composer Maurice Jarre. Swayze and Moore both received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances, while Goldberg won the BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Saturn Awards in addition to the Oscar. It won the awards for Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Score and Best Film Editing. Adjusted for inflation, as of 2015 Ghost was the 93rd-highest-grossing film of all time domestically. It was the highest-grossing film of 1990.
The film was an outstanding commercial success, grossing over $505.7 million at the box office on a budget of $22 million. The plot centers on a young woman in jeopardy (Demi Moore), the ghost of her murdered lover (Patrick Swayze) and a reluctant psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) who assists him in saving her although the psychic had previously been faking her powers. It was written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Lawrence, Susan Breslau, Martina Deignan, Macka Foley and Rick Aviles. In addition to numerous nominations, Whoopi Goldberg was earned her first Oscar, and immortalized Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore as Sam and Molly. Ghost, who has melted the clichés of multiple film genres with great skill, has indeed become perhaps the hottest and most popular film of 1990. Sam will probably face the most eccentric of the psychics. But when his former colleague Carl’s dirty clothes and bad plans for Molly come to light, he realizes that the only way to communicate with living things is through a medium. The young man is now able to move some objects.
This is an environment in which the souls of the dead exist in the same environment as living beings, but the souls of the living cannot see.Ī benevolent ghost helps Sam to accept and adjust to this new situation.
When his soul leaves the body, he finds the opportunity to slowly explore life after death. Sam gets kill by a punk who carrying his wallet. Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze) are New Yorkers living in love.