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Casper
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Casper is a 1995 American comedy drama and fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling. The screenplay was written by Deanna Oliver, Sherri Stoner, and Joe Oriolo, while the cast includes Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Devon Sawa, and Cathy Moriarty. James Horner composed the music, and Dean Cundey served as director of photography. The film was produced by Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg, Jeff Franklin, and Colin Wilson, with Michael Kahn editing the footage.
Produced by Amblin Entertainment, The Harvey Entertainment Company, and Universal Pictures, the movie has a runtime of 100 minutes. It is set in Maine, which also served as the filming location. The narrative centers on a haunted house. The film was released on May 26, 1995, and July 20, 1995, and is distributed by Netflix.
Casper received a PG rating and has a budget of 50,000,000. It earned 287,928,194 at the box office. Audience scores include a 6.2 rating on IMDb and a 6.339 average on TMDb. The film holds a Metascore of 49 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 59%. It has received 5 wins and 5 nominations.
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Film · TMDB
6.3Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.
Cast
- Christina Ricci as Kat
- Bill Pullman as Dr. James Harvey
- Cathy Moriarty as Carrigan
- Eric Idle as Dibs
- Malachi Pearson as Casper (voice)
- Joe Alaskey as Stinkie (voice)
Themes
- friendship
- afterlife
- supernatural
- halloween
- bullying
- treasure hunt
- based on comic
- friends
- teenage girl
- ghost hunting
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
158,144 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
59%
Metacritic
49/100
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- 5 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Brad Silberling
- Written by
- Sherri Stoner Deanna Oliver
- Based on
- Casper the Friendly Ghost , by Joseph Oriolo
- Produced by
- Colin Wilson
- Starring
- Christina Ricci Bill Pullman Cathy Moriarty Eric Idle
- Cinematography
- Dean Cundey
- Edited by
- Michael Kahn
- Music by
- James Horner
- Production companies
- Amblin Entertainment The Harvey Entertainment Company
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- May 26, 1995 ( 1995-05-26 )
- Running time
- 100 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $55 million
- Box office
- $290.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Casper is a 1995 American supernatural fantasy comedy film based on the cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. It was directed by Brad Silberling, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. The film stars Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, and Eric Idle, with the voices of Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey, Brad Garrett, and the film introduction of Malachi Pearson in the title role. The film follows the title character who peacefully haunts a mansion called Whipstaff Manor in Friendship, Maine, meets and befriends a teenage girl named Kat Harvey (Ricci), the daughter of Dr. James Harvey (Pullman), a paranormal therapist who is hired to move into Whipstaff in order to rid the mansion of its spectral inhabitants.
Filming took place from January to June of 1994. Casper makes extensive use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) to create the ghosts, and is the first feature film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role. It goes for a darker interpretation of Casper than in previous comics, cartoons, and theatrical shorts, providing the character with a backstory that addresses his death.
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