Life after death? Hmmm...

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2004)

I first saw this movie when I was about 12 years old. It's one of the few movies that I've evr watched that I continue to watch faithfully to this day.
It really makes you think about the question, "is there really life after death?"
Whether it's a belief that one goes to Heaven or Hell, or whether the spirit if reincarnated on earth, or is death simply, the end?
Who knows. This movie will make you think about it.
So think about the next time you're alone and that door closes by itself, or that light clanks on and off, are you really alone?
However this movie was not meant to be scary at all, which is what I thought when I first heard the title. It's actually the touching story of a murdered man named Sam who refuses to leave his fiance's side, even in death.
Molly is of course, oblivious to his prescence.
He enlists in the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown (played by Whoopi Goldberg, and her performance alone is reason enough to catch this flick), to his surprise he finds out really can hear him (after she's been ripping off all her customers who want to contact departed loved ones.
His fiance (Demi Moore) is of course a bit reluctant to believe some stranger who shows up at her door telling her that she's talking to her dead boyfriend.
Even after Brown reveals things to Molly that only her and Sam knew and many of their most private moments, she's still somewhat unconvinced.
Finally she does become convinced and agrres to let Brown in.
Sam wants to warn Molly that his best friend had him murdered and that she could be next.
Probably the most touching part of the film is when Oda Mae lets Sam "use her body" so that he and Molly can hold each other one last time.
It all comes to a head when Sam's best friend confronts Molly and Brown and Sam is there to protect them from beyond the grave. Carl, (Sam's friend [with pals like that who needs enemies?]) is impaled on glass during the melee and he dies. And after seeing his own body he's taken away by the shadow ghosts (probably the only half-way scary part of the whole film).
And in closing, Molly somehow can finally hear Sam as he tells her goodbye and goes into the light.
I love this film.
I think I'll go watch it now.