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Casper Details

1995

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Starring	Cathy Moriarty, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Eric Idle
Director	Brad Silberling
Genres	Comedy

Casper

Casper the ghost was created in 1940 by Joe Orolio. This is the live-action/animated family feature film starring the friendly young spook. In it, greedy heiress Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty) inherits the haunted Whipstaff Manor and discovers that the house contains a treasure, which is closely guarded by three nasty ghosts. She invites ghost therapist Dr. James Harvey, and his daughter Kat, (Bill Pullman and Christina Ricci) to move into the eerie mansion and get rid of the supernatural creatures.
The nephew of the three spirits is Casper, a friendly but lonely ghost who becomes Kat's pal. Casper takes Kat to his father's secret lab where he once attempted to bring Casper back to life with a special machine. Carrigan eavesdrops on their conversation and decides to become a ghost herself, in the hope that she will get the booty more easily. Then she can use the machine to change back to a human. However, Carrigan doesn't realise that you can't flirt with the afterlife.

Starring	Cathy Moriarty, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Eric Idle
Director	Brad Silberling
Studio	UNIVERSAL PICTURES VIDEO
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Released	Production year: 1995 To Rent: DVD: 01 Jan 2004

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- An unpleasant attempt to revive a comic-book character, both sickly with sentiment and tasteless in its attitudes to life and death; the special effects are spectacular, though.
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  This is such a good family film - my kids enjoyed it so much. So did I for that matter!
  
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  great film loved by all the family kids could watch it over and over again
  
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  a grate film for all agers
  
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  it was a very good film. i enjoyed it very much
  
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  Casper the ghost was created in 1940 by Joe Orolio. This is the live-action/animated family feature film starring the friendly young spook. In it, greedy heiress Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty) inherits the haunted Whipstaff Manor and discovers that the house contains a treasure, which is ...