![]() When a low-budget movie makes an unanticipated large sum of money, it’s considered a “sleeper” hit, which is exactly what happened to Ghost. ![]() GHOST OUT-GROSSED EVERY MOVIE RELEASED IN 1990. ![]() In her 1991 Oscar speech, she thanked Swayze, calling him “a stand-up guy.”Ģ. “And I won an Oscar because of Patrick Swayze,” Goldberg said. The producers resisted casting her, but Swayze told them he wasn’t doing the film unless Whoopi was in it, too, and that she was right for the part-even though at that point she and Swayze had never met. On The View, Goldberg revealed that she only got the role of Oda Mae Brown because Swayze fought for her. ![]() WHOOPI GOLDBERG CREDITS HER OSCAR WIN TO PATRICK SWAYZE. Here are some ghostly facts about a film that explores how even in death, love thrives. Somehow this supernatural-romantic-thriller, in which the lead character is an apparition, levitated out of the shadows to not only become the world’s highest-grossing film of 1990, but to win two Oscars. When Ghost was released over 25 years ago, it was hardly on anyone’s radar, with the exception of critics, who panned it. ![]()
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