Casper
This family-oriented 'ghost story' is about a not-so-scary ghost who bonds with a little girl who moves into the mansion he and his uncles haunt in company of her father who is a ghost specialist.
17 December 1953, Hornell, New York, USA
12 February 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA
15 December 1980, San Diego, California, USA
24 October 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 December 1963, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
7 September 1946, Evansville, Indiana, USA
25 March 1924, Amarillo, Texas, USA
20 March 1928, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA
22 June 1964, New London, Connecticut, USA
19 September 1981, California, USA
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
29 November 1960, The Bronx, New York, USA
3 January 1956, Peekskill, New York, USA
1 January 1943, Lorain, Ohio, USA
29 March 1943, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
8 April 1986, Orange County, California, USA
5 January 1980, Burbank, California, USA
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7 September 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1 July 1952, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
14 April 1960, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 November 1921, Deer Park, Long Island, New York, USA
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8 July 1979, California, USA
12 June 1981, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
July 16, 2010
t's aimed squarely at the tinies, but there is charm enough here to make it bearable for adults too.
July 18, 2007
he's a friendly little guy ain't he
April 18, 2007
The high-tech animation is completely persuasive; nothing else is.
January 02, 2011
Haunted house tale not as mild as the cartoons.
June 24, 2006
The set design, however, merely disguises what is in fact an intimate and likeable picture.
October 18, 2012
Never cloying or abundant with cutesy dialogue...
May 20, 2003
Casper's movie is not the cleverest one around, but its hero may be the most lovable.
April 18, 2007
It's not clear why Steven Spielberg's Amblin decided to make a live-action entertainment starring the least interesting and most saccharine of all 50s cartoon characters.
July 16, 2010
Only Ricci, strange gothic child that she is, gets close to shining next to the animation.
April 18, 2007
Once the audience has become inured to the wide-eyed protagonist and impressive digitized effects, there's little sense of wonder or awe to be found.
June 18, 2002
This doesn't usually happen to me, but 15 minutes before the end of Casper I suddenly realized that if I didn't take a deep breath, I was going to start sobbing.
July 06, 2010
A fairy tale with the soul of a rerun.
