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The Canterville Ghost

  • TV Movie
  • 1996
  • PG
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
3.1K
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Neve Campbell, Patrick Stewart, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Cherie Lunghi, Raymond Pickard, and Edward Wiley in The Canterville Ghost (1996)
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When an American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, the family's teenage daughter could be the key in fulfilling a prophecy and finally set the house's ghost free.When an American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, the family's teenage daughter could be the key in fulfilling a prophecy and finally set the house's ghost free.When an American family moves into a haunted mansion in England, the family's teenage daughter could be the key in fulfilling a prophecy and finally set the house's ghost free.

  • Director
    • Syd Macartney
  • Writers
    • Oscar Wilde
    • Robert Benedetti
  • Stars
    • Patrick Stewart
    • Neve Campbell
    • Joan Sims
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    3.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Syd Macartney
    • Writers
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Robert Benedetti
    • Stars
      • Patrick Stewart
      • Neve Campbell
      • Joan Sims
    • 49User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 5 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Patrick Stewart
    Patrick Stewart
    • Sir Simon de Canterville
    Neve Campbell
    Neve Campbell
    • Virginia 'Ginny' Otis
    Joan Sims
    Joan Sims
    • Mrs. Umney
    Donald Sinden
    Donald Sinden
    • Mr. Umney
    Cherie Lunghi
    Cherie Lunghi
    • Lucille Otis
    Edward Wiley
    • Hiram Otis
    Leslie Phillips
    Leslie Phillips
    • George, Lord Canterville
    Daniel Betts
    Daniel Betts
    • Francis, Duke of Cheshire
    Ciarán Fitzgerald
    Ciarán Fitzgerald
    • Adam Otis
    Raymond Pickard
    • Washington Otis
    Paul Brightwell
    Paul Brightwell
    • Vicar
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Syd Macartney
    • Writers
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Robert Benedetti
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    9Linda-12

    An enchanting story

    Do you remember those charming, touching, romantic movies from the 40s or 50s? Can you imagine one of those transformed into a teenie film without loosing a bit of its charm? Well, it can be done, as this film proves.

    It's the perfect film for an autumn evening with a fire crackling in the fireplace and the lights turned low.
    7didi-5

    how to find love with the help of a lonely ghost

    Neve Campbell and her family (small brothers, sympathetic mum, physicist and cynic father) travel from America to England when he lands a lucrative research post, and almost immediately strange things begin to happen in the de Canterville ancestry home.

    Bumps and moans in the night, bloodstains, invisible hands on the shoulder - yes, there's a ghost about.

    Oscar Wilde's story takes shape beautifully in this TV version, one of the numerous adaptations of his tale for children. Patrick Stewart is the ghostly Simon de Canterville, doomed to walk the house at night for all eternity for his earthly crimes, and he is watchable, especially wrestling with the pride of 400 years dead and no one to bow and scrape around him.

    This being a fairy tale there's romance for Ginny as well in the shape of a local Duke (Daniel Betts) who is sympathetic to ghosts and very charming, as local Dukes so often are in these stories. Donald Sinden and Joan Sims play butler and housekeeper, shielding guilty secrets, and Leslie Philips appears briefly as the current representative of family de Canterville.

    Recommended for children and adults alike, 'The Canterville Ghost' is charming, touching, and with just the right amount of suspense. The Americans may be paint-by-numbers stereotypes, but that doesn't matter. Without Stewart, I might have rated this much lower, but it definitely deserves high points for his performance alone.
    6Lejink

    Spirited Wildean adaptation

    Oscar Wilde's short story is here updated and given a glossy makeover in this American TV movie co-produced by lead actor Patrick Stewart. Wilde's tale is tweaked somewhat, no doubt for modern consumption, but the story of the lamenting ghost, behind whose bluster lies a desire for redemption and eternal rest still comes through in what was a pleasant and watchable piece of family entertainment.

    Making good use of its Knebworth House location and employing the services of veteran English supporting actors Joan Sims and Donald Sinden as housekeeper Mrs Umney and her husband, these fustian, traditional components, along with the stentorian, Shakespeare-quoting Stewart as the ghost himself, contrast nicely with the brash youth of Mr & Mrs Otis and their young children. I might have wished for a scarier ghost and better special effects but I guess a TV movie budget is somewhat less than for a full cinematic release.

    As is usual in tales of this type, there's always one disbelieving sceptic, in this case the father, Mr Otis, who for good measure appears to have seen his relationship with oldest daughter Virginia become strained as she gets older, the situation for the latter exacerbated by the family's move to England from America.

    After initially encountering Stewart's ghost with to be fair, not much fear and trepidation, the children man (and woman) up enough for Virginia to bond with it and by the end lead it to peace and the expected happy ending. The device of trying to convince the father of the ghost's existence by means of the daughter and Stewart recreating Hamlet's father's ghost scene seems a bit far-fetched for modern audiences, even whilst I appreciate it is in the book. Neve Campbell does well in her scenes with Stewart depicting a young teenage girl's blossoming into womanhood, aided conveniently by the appearance of a neighbouring handsome young lord.

    Purists may criticise some of the liberties taken with Wilde's original story, but sufficient respect I believe is paid in what was for me a sprightly and warming retelling of a nice old tale.
    8RosanaBotafogo

    Cute...

    What cuteness, great adaptation, half youthful, half romantic, a little dramatic and almost nothing frightening, anyway, delicious ... Gracinha da Família, a simple and captivating film...
    cbj-2

    A family film in the truest sense - a delight for everyone

    This is a little gem of a movie, with lush sets and surprisingly good special effects, in a truly English (as opposed to a Disney/Mary Poppins British) setting and an attractive cast. Patrick Stewart brings the full weight of his Shakespearian background to bear, and creates a tragic and tender ghost, never lapsing into bathos or slapstick. Neve Campbell as the heroine is convincing as a brave, warm-hearted girl embarking on a gentle romance with the well-cast Daniel Betts. Kids will love the ghostly capers, teenagers and older family members will enjoy Ginny and Francis getting closer together, and empathise with the father-daughter conflict, and more mature watchers will be moved by the sad history of Sir Simon. A three-hanky movie. The only fly in the ointment was the entirely wasted presence of Joan Sims and Donald Sinden - "ham" really should have been off the menu in their case, but at least we don't have to see much of them.

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    • Trivia
      When the film was initially released in Japan, they retitled it "Ghost Scream" to capitalize on Neve Campbell's popularity of the movie Scream (1996), which came out some months after the movie was released. This change was reverted for the Japanese DVD release.
    • Quotes

      Virginia 'Ginny' Otis: When a gentle girl can win a prayer from out the lips of sin/when a child gives up tears and the barren almond bears/when the silent chapel bell sounds the ghostly sinners knell/then shall all the house be still, and peace shall come to Canterville.

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      Version of Le fantôme de Canterville (1944)

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    • Release date
      • January 27, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Кентервільський привид
    • Filming locations
      • Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Anasazi
      • Signboard Hill Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 32m(92 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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