Photography by Adam Greenberg. Music by Maurice Jarre. This movie was a phenomenal hit. It was one of the first movies to explore the spiritual dimension to which we all pass into at death. Hollywood has learned that people are interested not only in carnal things but the spiritual realm, as well.
Ghost opens up with a young couple in love moving into their first apartment.
This makes his untimely death during a mugging all the more poignant and profoundly sad event in the film. Molly holds Sam as Virgin Mary holds Jesus as portrayed in most traditional Renaissance pictures of the aftermath of the crucifixion. Sam is immediately pictured in the afterlife. This is to done very effectively. But Sam's journey is put on hold because there is an injustice that needs to be worked out.