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Ghost (1990)

Romance/Drama/Comedy Rated 15 Spoiler Free Despite having seen Ghost several times growing up and, with vaguely good memories of it, I only bought the film for one of my “not the usual” reviews. I was a lot easier to please back then, and yet somehow more adventurous with my film choices. I often chastise myself for being quite narrow minded these days. I beat myself up for not having seen all the wonderful cinema others gush over, but then I was raised Catholic; guilt is their schtick. Surely everybody over the age of about thirty knows the famous sexy clay pottery scene from Ghost, when Patrick Swayze’s Sam erotically interrupts his artist partner Molly’s (Demi Moore) sloppy brown manipulation. Set to Roy Orbison’s warbly love classic, Unchained Melody, the scene is now iconic but the film perhaps a little forgotten. I certainly couldn’t remember much past that scene and that after being murdered Sam tries to warn Molly of danger. Turns out that’s a pretty succinct, but sparse, reco

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