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Released
1989 · FILM

Ghosts Can't Do It

Only her desire can make him rise again

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
95 min
ComedyCrimeFantasy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Elderly Scott kills himself after a heart attack wrecks his body, but then comes back as a ghost and convinces his loving young hot wife Kate to pick and kill a young man in order for Scott to possess his body and be with her again.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John DerekScored by Junior Homrich

Box Office

1989 · Box office

Grossed $25K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$25K

Worldwide gross$25K

Also known as

  • Mein Geist will immer nur das Eine …de
  • Los fantasmas no pueden... hacerloes
  • I fantasmi non possono farloit

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