Film · Prime Video · 1995
Pass it on
Casper
50Watch it awake.
Gentler than the poster. A dead child, a living one, a father who is not a joke.
The review
Casper is lonely in a way the slapstick uncles are not. Kat has lost her mother. The father is chasing a machine that would let the living say goodbye, which is grief with a hobby. The film is uneven and commercial and still treats the two children as people who miss someone.
Not a substitute for a real conversation. A tolerable companion to one, if the house is not in the first raw month of a loss. The uncles are noise. The boy at the window is the story.
Journal
Keep Casper in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Princess Bride
64 instead of 50
The Princess Bride is still a family film, and it scores 64 instead of 50. What you gain is industry: A quest with chores: the cliffs, the fight, the pit.
The eight
- 4Industry
A father with a crackpot invention and a real motive.
- 7Household
A bereaved father and daughter. A ghost who wants a friend.
- 4Piety
Death is in the house, not as a thrill only.
- 5Courage
She stays in the house.
- 3Republic
An inheritance, a town that wants the property.
- 5Temperance
The uncles' appetite for haunting is the joke.
- 6Truth
He was a boy. The film does not turn that into a gag.
- 6Stewardship
What they offer each other is company, not a trick.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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