Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Jenn Gannon and Jason Coyle, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Jerry Zucker’s Ghost.
Sam and Molly live a seemingly idyllic existence in New York city. Sam is an investment banker, Molly is a sculptor. However, a freak accident disrupts their seemingly perfect lives, leaving the pair separated across the mortal plane. Can the two find a way to reconnect across the void and can Sam finally telly Molly what she truly means to him before it’s too late?
At time of recording, it was not was ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 1st September 2023.
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- Jonah Nolan talks to The Guardian about how Christopher Nolan was “the great herald of Star Wars” at his British school, November 2014.
- Jesse Hessinger at The A.V. Club writes about the peculiarity of Ruthless People in the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker filmography, August 2015.
- Simon Abrams at Politico looks back on the comedic collaborations of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, September 2011.
- Bruce Rubin talks to The Los Angeles Times about discovering that Jerry Zucker was going to direct his Ghost screenplay, July 1990.
- Bruce Rubin talks to The Washington Post about his life and career after Ghost, November 1990.
- Bruce Rubin talks to Vanity Fair to mark the 25th anniversary of Ghost, July 2015.
- Peter Bradshaw offers a retro review of Ghost for The Guardian, February 2020.
- Jerry Zucker talks to Entertainment Weekly about combining comedy and drama on Ghost, August 2020.
- Scott Tobias at The Guardian describes Ghost as a movie that “tried to do it all”, July 2020.
- Catherine O’Brien writes at The Journal of Material Culture about the popularity of pottery wheels during the pandemic, November 2023.
- Dominic Lutyens at The BBC reflects on how pottery became popular during the pandemic, April 2021.
- Colin Dickey at Long Reads reflects on watching Ghost during the pandemic, October 2023.
- The Morning Call looks back on the nineties as a decade of materialism, December 1999.
- George L. Kelling at City Journal looks at how New York City transformed from “fear city” in the late eighties and early nineties, July 2009.
- Daniel Fandino at Journey to the Wired West looks back on the anxieties about Japan in eighties and nineties American pop culture, March 2018.
- Wendy Lee at The Los Angeles Review of Books considers the fear of “an Asian Future” in eighties and nineties pop culture, July 2015.
- Roger Ebert reviews Ghost for The Chicago Sun Times, July 1990.
- Jerry Zucker talks to Forbes about casting Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in Ghost, July 2010.
- Demi Moore talks to The New York Times about her long path to movie stardom, May 1991.
- Eric Wilson at The New York Times remembers John Sahag, June 2005.
- Drew Weisholtz at Today reflects on Demi Moore’s “brat pack” reunion, May 2023.
- RS Benedict at Blood Knife looks at the weird sexlessness of modern movies, February 2021.
- Marlow Stern and Kevin Fallon at The Daily Beast wonder how modern movies became so sexless, January 2021.
- Carlee Gomes writes at Specchio Scuro about the decline of sex on film, November 2023.
- Gwynne Watkins at Yahoo! reflects on the deleted sex scene from Ghost, July 2015.
- Desson Howe at The New York Times reflects on how early nineties cinema was obsessed with life after death, August 1990.
- Caryn James at The New York Times reports on the popularity of ghost stories in the early nineties, July 1990.
- The Associated Press considers how Ghost lends some prestige to the contemporary cinematic ghost story, May 1991.
- Bruce Rubin talks to The Sydney Morning Herald about how Ghost almost starred Paul Hogan and Nicole Kidman, February 2016.
- Patrick Swayze talks to CBS News about having to fight for the lead role in Ghost, March 2007.
- Irin Carmon at Jezebel considers the unique masculinity of Patrick Swayze, September 2010.
- Dustin Rowles at Pajiba reflects on the positive masculinity embodied by Patrick Swayze, August 2019.
- Bruce Rubin talks The Detroit News about how Ghost was inspired by Hamlet, July 2020.
- Patrick Swayze talks to Barbara Walters, 1988.
- Steven Kurutz at The New York Times reflects on the life and times of Hutton Gibson, June 2020.
- Tony Goldwyn talks to E! Online about how the role in Ghost stayed with him, July 2020.
- Tony Goldwyn talks to The A.V. Club about his life and career, August 2014.
- Tony Goldwyn talks to Yahoo! about how much people hated his character in Ghost, February 2020.
- Whoopi Goldberg looks back on her Oscar win for Variety, April 2021.
- Ben Child at The Guardian reports on the failure of the New York Times to acknowledge Goldberg’s Oscar win, February 2011.
- Ed Robinson at The New York Post reports on the theft of Whoopi Goldberg’s Oscar, February 2002.
- Brian Boone at Vulture looks back on decades of overlooked comedic performances that deserved awards recognition, February 2019.
- Brian Kirchgessner at MovieWeb wonders whether Ryan Gosling could win an Oscar for his work in Barbie, August 2023.
- Joel Engel at The Los Angeles Times reports on how Dennis Prager influenced the script and the morality of Ghost, November 1991.
- Bruce Rubin talks to The New York Times about how Jerry Zucker guided him towards the emotional climax of Ghost, March 2001.
- Terry Atkinson at The Los Angeles Times reports on the home media release of Ghost, March 1991.
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