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Plot

Carrigan Crittenden ( Cathy Moriarty ) inherits an old house from her late father. When she discovers the house has a treasure hidden in it, she and her lackey Dibbs ( Eric Idle) try to enter the house and find it, but discover the house is haunted.

To get rid of the ghosts, Crittenden hires Dr. James Harvey ( Bill Pullman), an "afterlife therapist," to help the ghosts come to terms with their unfinished business and cross over. Dr. Harvey's goal with this occupation is to find the ghost of his late wife and communicate with her. Casper, the ghost of twelve year old boy, develops a crush on Dr. Harvey's teenage daughter Kat ( Christina Ricci.)

Kat and Casper do develop a kind of relationship and find out that Casper's father, a great inventor had built a machine that can bring ghosts back to life -- the Lazarus (named for Lazarus in the New Testament, whom Jesus brough back to life.)When Casper's uncles, the more beastly ghosts, grow to like Dr. Harvey they take him to bar.

Taking advantage of the ghosts being out of the house, Crittenden and Dibbs follow Kat and Casper to the laboratory built by Casper's father, which contain the Lazarus and the vault to the treasure. Before Casper can be brought back to life, they steal the essential ingredient, realizing that if one of them were to die, they could go through the vault door, get the treasure out and come back to life.

After attempting to kill each other (they couldn't decide who would die) Crittenden falls off a cliff and comes back as a ghost and steals the treasure before Kat and Casper's eyes. However, Dibbs turns on her and she flings him out a window. When Kat and Casper point that since Crittenden is now a ghost she should have unfinished business, she declares she has no unfinished business and accidently causes herself to cross over. The treasure chest falls in the floor and opens, revealing the treasure was an autographed baseball.

Meanwhile, Dr. Harvey falls into an open sewar and dies, becoming a ghost. While Casper's uncles are pleased with this, Casper realizes he must be brought back to life, thereby making it so Casper must remain a ghost.

Kat's mother ( Amy BrennemanActress Amy Brenneman (1964 ) formerly starred on NYPD Blue and is currently the star of Judging Amy. She was born on June 22 in New London, Connecticut and was raised in Glastonbury. She graduated from Harvard University in 1987. External links on IMDb B) appears to her husband and Casper, revealing that she had not become a ghost, but an angelThis article describes supernatural creatures; for other meanings, see angel (disambiguation). Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus ( El Greco, 1575) An angel is a spiritual being which assists and serves God or the gods in many religious tr, since she had no unfinished business. She allows Casper to become alive again until ten for Kat's HalloweenHalloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Ireland and Canada. party. He turns back into a ghost just when he and Kat kiss, freaking out all other kids and causing them to run wildly out of the mansion.