Random Trivia For This Title: - This is the second movie in which Christina RicciChristina Ricci is the love interest of Devon SawaDevon Sawa (Casper in his human form). The other one is Now and Then.
- When Carrigan and Dibbs are trying to get the ghosts out of the mansion, they first try a priest to exorcise them, played by Don NovelloDon Novello as Father Guido Sarducci. When that doesn't work the scene changes to several pieces of furniture being thrown out of the door, and Dan AykroydDan Aykroyd is seen running out. He stops by Carrigan and Dibbs and says, "Who you gonna call? Somebody else." He then leaves quickly. He is dressed as his character, Dr. Raymond Stantz from Ghost Busters and Ghostbusters II. Both Aykroyd and the Fr. Sarducci character are [Saturday Night Live] alumni.
- A musical scene, deemed too expensive by the film's producers, was scripted and filmed, entitled {Lucky Enough to Be A Ghost} in which the three ghosts sing about their many mental problems during a session with Dr. Harvey, but the animation would have cost a few million dollars.
- This was the first film with a computer-animated title character.
- The last name of the Christina RicciChristina Ricci's and Bill PullmanBill Pullman's characters is "Harvey". Harvey Comics is the long time publisher of [Casper the Friendly Ghost].
- In the breakfast scene, Casper's uncles enter the kitchen twirling like helicopters while Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries plays in the background, and Stretch later says "I love the smell of fleshies in the morning!" All this is a direct reference to Apocalypse Now.
- A scene was filmed with Zelda RubinsteinZelda Rubinstein reprising her role from Poltergeist (shooting out of a chimney and shouting "Go toward the light!") but was not included in the final cut.
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