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1990 · romance · fantasy · thriller

Ghost

Directed by Jerry Zucker2h 7m1990
ElsewhereIMDb7.1252kRT74%Metacritic52TMDB7.26k
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Movie DNA

Neutral, steady, measured romance / fantasy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

Our read · Ghost (1990) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded romance · fantasy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want romance, humor, and supernatural suspense woven into one classic.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violence

Skip it tonightIntimate scenes or a weepy afterlife romance feel too heavy tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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