Comedy: A researcher and his daughter move into a mansion haunted by a ghost and his three mischievous uncles.
PLOT:
In Friendship, Maine the haunted Whipstaff manor is inherited by the self-centered Carrigan (CATHY MORIARTY) who is accompanied by her aide, Dibs (ERIC IDLE). She hires a "ghost shrink," Dr. James Harvey (BILL PULLMAN) to get rid of the ghosts. Harvey works with the "living impaired" ever since his wife, Amelia, died. He drags along his daughter, Kat (CHRISTINA RICCI), from place to place to help ghosts, but his real intent is to contact his dead wife. Arriving in Friendship, they find the manor inhabited by a young ghost, Casper and his three uncles, Stretch, Fatso, and Stinky. Casper wants to have a friend (and he finds one in Kat), but his uncles want no one in their home. Soon they all adapt to each other but then must put up with Carrigan and Dibs who believe there to be buried treasure in the manor.
WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
Sure. Ricci is a draw for the younger crowd and a comedy about ghosts filled with special effects will draw all ages.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG
For mild language and thematic elements.
CAST AS ROLE MODELS:
CHRISTINA RICCI plays an average teenage girl with no discernible bad traits.
BILL PULLMAN plays the father looks for ghosts while being oblivious to his motherless daughter's needs.
CATHY MORIARTY plays a greedy despicable portrait of a woman.
CASPER is the friendly ghost who just wants someone to play with.
The opening of the movie has two boys entering the dark and spooky mansion.
The arrival and appearance(menacing looking, big eyes, sharp teeth) of the three uncle ghosts might scare younger kids.
The decomposed "Crypt Keeper" character from "Tales From the Crypt" shows up in a cameo and may be scary to younger kids who aren't familiar with him.
Young kids might be scared the first time Kat and her dad encounter the ghosts and are chased around the house (before we find out the three uncles ghosts have funny personalities.)
The ghosts melt in the sunlight and their agonizing "death" might be scary looking.
The first trip into the basement might be scary to the younger ones (it's dark with weird flashes of light).
Carrigan's ghost is scary looking.
Carrigan's ghost "crosses over" and her agonizing disappearance might be scary.
Casper enthusiastically says "There's a girl on my bed -- Yes!" when Kat (not seeing the invisible Casper) sits on the bed.
Innuendo from the ghosts trapped inside a vacuum cleaner: "Who's got their pointy head against me?" "That's not my head."
There is the implication of talking about the "birds and the bees" between Kat and her dad where he starts to talk about that and she says "It's too late" and then rephrases that to "It's not that late."
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