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 General  
 Produced by   Universal Pictures;
    Amblin Entertainment;
    The Harvey Entertainment Company
  Runtime   101 minutes
  Certification   PG
  Cast  
  Christina Ricci  Kat Harvey
  Bill Pullman  Dr. Harvey
  Malachi Pearson  Casper
  Cathy Moriarty  Carrigan
  Eric Idle  Dibs
  Joe Nipote  Stretch
  Joe Alaskey  Stinkie
  Brad Garrett  Fatso
  Jessica Wesson  Amber
  Ben Stein  Ruggr
  Amy Brenneman  Amelia
  Credits  
  Director   Brad Silberling
  Producers   Colin Wilson;
    Steve Waterman;
    Steven Spielman;
    Jeffrey A. Montgomery
  Screenplay   Joseph Oriolo (original story);
    Seymour Reit (original story);
    Sherri Stoner;
    Deanna Oliver
  Production design   Leslie Dilley
  Music   James Horner
  Editor   Michael Kahn
  Costume design   Rosanna Norton
  Assistant director   Steve E. Andrews;
    Drew Ann Rosenberg;
    Jennifer Taback
  Art director   Daniel Maltese;
    Ed Verreaux
  Animation director   Phil Nibbelink
 
  Summary
  In Friendship, Maine the haunted Whipstaff manor is inherited
by the self-centered Carrigan (CATHY MORIARTY) who is accompanied
by her aide, Dibs (ERIC IDLE). She hires a "ghost shrink," Dr.
James Harvey (BILL PULLMAN) to get rid of the ghosts. Harvey works
with the "living impaired" ever since his wife, Amelia, died. He
drags along his daughter, Kat (CHRISTINA RICCI), from place to
place to help ghosts, but his real intent is to contact his dead
wife. Arriving in Friendship, they find the manor inhabited by a
young ghost, Casper and his three uncles, Stretch, Fatso, and Stinky.
Casper wants to have a friend (and the finds one in Kat), but his
uncles want no one in their home. Soon they all adapt to each other
but then must put up with Carrigan and Dibs who believe there to
be buried treasure in the manor.