There’s no denying that Patrick Swayze starred in some of the biggest romance cult classics during the span of his career, and one 1990 sleeper hit is considered to be one of the best romance storylines.
Variety developed a list of some of the greatest movies released in the romance genre, and fans can likely guess which Swayze films fit the criteria. Having originally gotten recognition in the drama and action films The Outsiders and Red Dawn, the actor solidified himself as an on-screen heartthrob with Dirty Dancing.
While Swayze made hearts swoon in a leather jacket and with his dance moves in 1987, Variety ranked Ghost at No. 7 on its list of the greatest romance movies of all time. The 1990 supernatural romance starred the actor opposite Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tony Goldwyn in what would become the highest-grossing film of the year that unexpectedly outperformed several blockbusters.
Directed by Jerry Zucker, Ghost was a surprise from a director who was known for spoof comedy hits like Airplane! The Naked Gun and Police Squad! The director was looking to simply make a good drama movie and developed the film alongside writer Bruce Joel Rubin.
Ghost follows Swayze as Sam Wheat, a banker whose murdered and comes back as a ghost with unfinished business. He’s unable to communicate with the living world until finding a psychic con artist, Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg). Along the way, he uncovers the truth about his death and tries to communicate with his girlfriend, Molly Jensen (Moore), to warn her.
“The way Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore bond across the ectoplasmic divide is at once thrilling and moving (true love, it seems, knows no restrictions, from either physics or the spirit world). The film turned the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” into a retro smash, but only because of how it tapped the film’s emotions: intimate, operatic, quavering with devotion,” said Variety.
The film would end up making over $505 million at the box office on a $22 million budget, and would earn five Oscar nominations. It would win Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay.
Before Swayze, the role almost went to Bruce Willis, who was married to Moore at the time. He told a New York Times reporter that he was a “knucklehead” for having turned down the role.
“I just didn’t get it. I said, ‘Hey, the guy’s dead. How are you gonna have a romance?’ Famous last words,” he joked.
Swayze once revealed his love for romance and goosebumps, with the script for Ghost having left him “boo-hooing” and set on making the film. He even called the film’s iconic pottery scene one of the “sweetest, sexiest love scene that I’ve ever been involved with.” Ghost also left a lasting impact that he felt 100% proud of, especially its subject matter of death.
“Ghost was the first movie I’ve ever done that really changed me as a person because it’s about taking the love with you after you die,” he told the Los Angeles Times.
He once told People it was “about living your life for the moment, because that’s all you’ve got … If you don’t communicate with the people you love, you set yourself up for incredible pain if you lose them.”
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