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Always (1989)
Ghost or Angel? "Always" continued...
Watched "Always" again today. Wiki said it preceded "Ghost" and a host of other 'afterlife' movies. I also loved "Ghost" and from the horror/nightmarish standpoint, I'd also recommend "Jacobs Ladder".
Richard Dreyfuss and Patrick Swayze both intervene with their surviving gIrlfriend. They also play gags on their old buddies (Dreyfus has John Goodman smear his face with airplane grease; Patrick Swayze scares his friend (and murderer) with ghostly rabbit punches and eerie computer warnings.
I like Holly Hunter and Demi Moore in their respective roles...Another coincidence is they both wait indefinitely to hear the words "I love you... " Instead they get "me, too" or "ditto."
The scene where Richard Dreyfuss speaks to a morose Holly Hunter about her hair and that "he can see her" is reminiscent when Patrick Swayze sits alongside Demi Moore with his unheard but tender messages passed by Whoopi Goldberg.
Bruce Joel Rubin wrote both "Ghost" and "Jacobs ladder." The dead Vincent Schevelli on the subway in Ghost was a much scarier and more practical other-worldly guide than Audrey Hepburn is in "Always".
"A Guy named Joe" was the inspiration for "Always." I wonder if "It's a Wonderful Life" was the movie that impacted Bruce Joel Rubin's ghostly flicks? Or maybe the "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" ?
"Ghost" made me cry-several times, thanks to Demi Moore; Holly Hunter inspires with clever banter. Richard Dreyfuss... (one of my all time favorites for light romantic comedy in "The Goodbye Girl", "Stakeout" and evening the under-valued"Let it Ride" which has an amazing reprise of Teri Garr as his wife, did better work in these other films.
Fans of Steven Spielberg will find the watch passable. Fans of "Ghost" should watch it (once at least) to enjoy Holly Hunter and note the script similarities.
Richard Dreyfuss and Patrick Swayze both intervene with their surviving gIrlfriend. They also play gags on their old buddies (Dreyfus has John Goodman smear his face with airplane grease; Patrick Swayze scares his friend (and murderer) with ghostly rabbit punches and eerie computer warnings.
I like Holly Hunter and Demi Moore in their respective roles...Another coincidence is they both wait indefinitely to hear the words "I love you... " Instead they get "me, too" or "ditto."
The scene where Richard Dreyfuss speaks to a morose Holly Hunter about her hair and that "he can see her" is reminiscent when Patrick Swayze sits alongside Demi Moore with his unheard but tender messages passed by Whoopi Goldberg.
Bruce Joel Rubin wrote both "Ghost" and "Jacobs ladder." The dead Vincent Schevelli on the subway in Ghost was a much scarier and more practical other-worldly guide than Audrey Hepburn is in "Always".
"A Guy named Joe" was the inspiration for "Always." I wonder if "It's a Wonderful Life" was the movie that impacted Bruce Joel Rubin's ghostly flicks? Or maybe the "Ghost and Mrs. Muir" ?
"Ghost" made me cry-several times, thanks to Demi Moore; Holly Hunter inspires with clever banter. Richard Dreyfuss... (one of my all time favorites for light romantic comedy in "The Goodbye Girl", "Stakeout" and evening the under-valued"Let it Ride" which has an amazing reprise of Teri Garr as his wife, did better work in these other films.
Fans of Steven Spielberg will find the watch passable. Fans of "Ghost" should watch it (once at least) to enjoy Holly Hunter and note the script similarities.