Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) on Netflix
PG19971h 30mComedyFamilyFantasy
Casper is kicked off a ghost train and realizes he is a ghost. He befriends Chris Carson, a boy whose father Tim plans to demolish the mansion where the Ghostly Trio lives.
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Plot summary
Casper rides a train toward Ghost Central with no notion that he is a ghost. Kicked off the train in Deedstown, he unintentionally frightens townspeople and learns what he is. There Chris Carson, a boy absorbed by the supernatural, lives with his widowed father Tim, who is consumed by work and set on tearing down the old Applegate Mansion for a mini-mall. Chris's teacher Sheila Fistergraff leads residents who oppose the plan, and the mansion already has occupants: Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie, the Ghostly Trio, who drive off both the work crew and the demonstrators. Chris asks to join the Trio and is refused because he is human. Befriending Casper instead, he offers to teach him how to haunt. At Ghost Central, the ghoul Kibosh learns of Casper's absence and sends his assistant Snivel after him.
Cast
- Steven Hartmanas Brock Lee
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Harvey Entertainment chairman Jeff Montgomery said Universal paid $750,000 for the rights to a Casper film and any theatrical sequels but never accounted for the direct-to-video market, which at the time was dominated by pornography and low-budget action films.
- The film's score, composed and conducted by Udi Harpaz, includes the 1980 John Williams recording of Alfred Newman's 20th Century Fox fanfare, the same recording heard in Star Wars films from The Empire Strikes Back through Revenge of the Sith.
- Haim Saban said a screening of the film for distribution representatives from Walmart was met with a standing ovation.
