Sure enough, Sam and Molly are strolling amorously down a deserted street when a gun-toting mugger appears. But an angel being hoisted into the loft's window, a news report of an airplane crash and even Molly's desire to see a performance of ''Macbeth'' - all these things foretell trouble. Moore), as an idyllically happy New York couple moving into a new loft. Swayze), and Molly Jensen, an up-and-coming artist (Ms. ''Ghost'' begins by presenting Sam Wheat, an improbably named investment banker (Mr. This may, for instance, be the only film with a steamily romantic sequence in which the hero and the heroine get together and make pottery. As directed by Jerry Zucker, previously known as part of the three-man directing team behind comedies like ''Airplane!'' and ''Ruthless People,'' ''Ghost'' veers repeatedly from the somber to the broadly comic, with a number of strange but appealingly offbeat digressions along the way. It's also eccentric enough to remain interesting even when its ghost story isn't easy to believe. ''Ghost,'' which stars Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore as lovers separated by that great, trend-minded screenwriter in the sky, is nothing if not earnest. What seems most important is that ghosts come to the aid of their loved ones, and that the ghost film manages, at least on its own terms, to be sincere. The questions of just what ghosts can do, of what effect ghosts may have on others or even of how ghosts regard their new status are seldom even addressed. Being dead has lately been presented on screen as a character-building experience, but beyond that the current ghost films hedge their bets. Current Hollywood thinking extends into the next world, but not very far.
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