Ghost (movie)

It was nominated for Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Score and Best Picture. A remake was done as a TV movie in 2004, now available on video and DVD. It won Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Whoopi Goldberg) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The Goodbye Girl was subsequently developed into a 1993 Broadway musical. He communicates with her through a con artist posing as a psychic who, as it turns out, can actually hear the dead and be possessed by them. The title song, performed by David Gates, was a pop hit. A murdered man comes back as a ghost to try to prevent his girlfriend from being killed. At 30, Dreyfuss was the youngest actor ever to win the Best Actor Oscar (this record has since been surpassed by Adrien Brody, who was 29 when he won his award for The Pianist.).

Ghost was a 1990 comedy romantic fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn and Rick Aviles, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (Richard Dreyfuss) and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Marsha Mason), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Quinn Cummings), Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The movie was written by Neil Simon and directed by Herbert Ross. It stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict. The three must learn to live together despite rubbing each other the wrong way.

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 film which tells the story of an actor who sublets an apartment which already contains a widow and her daughter.