Ghost

Ghost (1990)

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Oda Mae Brown: Why don't you go haunt a house? Rattle some chains or something.

Oda Mae Brown: I don't know you! I don't know Sam, but let me tell you what he did to me. He kept me up all night singing "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am."
Molly Jensen: That's how he got me to go out with him.

Oda Mae Brown: I know you don't think I'm giving this four million dollars to a bunch of nuns!

Oda Mae Brown: Four-million dollars?
Lyle Furgeson: Yes. Four-million dollars. And, um, how would you like that, Mrs. Miller?
Oda Mae Brown: Tens and twenties?
Sam Wheat: No, a cashier's check.
Oda Mae Brown: Actually... I think better a cashier's check.
Lyle Furgeson: Right.

Oda Mae Brown: My mother had it. My mother's mother had it. They both had the gift. They always said I had it, but I never did. I never had it. They told me what it was like. They told me all about it, but now that I got it, I don't think I want it. So do me a favor, just go away. Find somebody else.
Sam: Somebody else? You're out of your mind.
Oda Mae Brown: I'm gettin' there fast.

Sam: I love you Molly. I always have.
Molly: Ditto.

Sam Wheat: They're going to kill you, Carl. You and Willie! You're going to be fertilizer. They're gonna bury you right next to Jimmy Hoffa.

Guy at window: Didn't you ever hear of a phone?
Oda Mae Brown: Wanna kiss my butt?

Oda Mae Brown: Four million dollars! Oh my god! What am I gonna do with this money? I'm gonna buy the building! No, wait! I'm gonna buy the block! I'm gonna make my sister go to a fat farm cause you know she's way too big!

Ortisha: What happened to Orlando? Where's the insurance policy?

[Sam pushes Carl around in Molly's kitchen.]
Sam Wheat: Now, do you believe in ghosts?

Subway ghost: You think you're wearing those clothes? You think you're crouched on that floor? Bullshit!

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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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.

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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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