Casper
A teen who lost her mother befriends Casper, a friendly teenage ghost while staying at a mean heiress's haunted mansion along with her father.
1 January 1943, Lorain, Ohio, USA
14 April 1960, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
1948
3 January 1956, Peekskill, New York, USA
12 June 1981, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
15 December 1980, San Diego, California, USA
12 February 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA
29 March 1943, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
24 October 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
December1981
25 November 1944, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
October 18, 2012
Never cloying or abundant with cutesy dialogue...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.July 18, 2007
he's a friendly little guy ain't heMay 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.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.June 24, 2006
The set design, however, merely disguises what is in fact an intimate and likeable picture.January 02, 2011
Haunted house tale not as mild as the cartoons.April 18, 2007
The high-tech animation is completely persuasive; nothing else is.July 06, 2010
A fairy tale with the soul of a rerun.July 16, 2010
t's aimed squarely at the tinies, but there is charm enough here to make it bearable for adults too.