History Film / Casper

* AllThereInTheScript: Dibs' name is Paul Plutzker, revealed in the credits and DVD features. Amber and Vic's surnames are also revealed to be [=DePhilippi=] and Whitmire. The credits also name the two boys from the opening scene as Nicky and Andreas.

* PercussiveMaintenance: Vic helps Kat open her locker this way when the door sticks. He explains he had that same locker the previous year.

* OnlyCaresAboutInheritance: Carrigan is introduced sitting in funeral clothes with her lawyer and Dibs at the reading of her father's will. As her father's lawyer lists off the [[PassedOverInheritance various charitable causes he left his vast fortune to]] she dismissively stubs her cigarette out on the table in front of her and coldly asks "What did the old stiff leave me?". Whilst Dibs stumbles to try and fix the social faux pas, when she finds out she has only inherited a condemned[[note]]and unbeknownst to all present, [[InheritanceBacklash haunted]][[/note]] manor, she confesses she only stayed by her dying father's bedside holding his hand as she was waiting for him to kick the bucket so she could see what he'd left her.

It gained a few [[DirectToVideo DTV]] sequels, two live action and two CGI animated. However, save ''Casper's Uncles'', they don't share any continuity with each other.

The film was additionally the basis for the short-lived animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresOfCasper'' and received a [[LicensedGame licensed video game adaptation]].

* PassedOverInheritance: Carrigan expected to inherit way more than she did. Her father left almost everything to charity.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Dibs does this to Carrigan after she dies and comes back as a ghost when he refuses to bring her back to life, bluntly telling her he's through with her.]]

* TeensAreShort: Kat is more than a foot shorter than her dad. Heck, she's even shorter than [[spoiler:Casper as a human]], despite him dying at a younger age that Kat currently is.

** People may have attempted to live in Whipstaff during the century between Casper's death and the film's present day, leading to periodic renovations and refurbishments before the Ghostly Trio inevitably drove any potential residents out. Further proof of modernisation is the scene where Kat hotwires the fusebox, showing that Whipstaff is connected to the mains electricity, a utility that would not have existed in the 1890s. Indeed, the script identifies the machine Dr. Harvey is trying to make work in the fusebox scene as 'an ancient generator', confirming that at one time the house depended on a private source of electrical power.

** The script for the movie has the ball as being signed by Dan Brouthers, who played two seasons (1891-1892) for the Brooklyn Grooms, the team now known as the Dodgers. This aligns neatly with Casper dying in January 1895. The writers seem to have done their research, so the change to 'Duke Snider' must have been made at some point during production/post-production, presumably because Snider was a player audiences could more easily recognise as one of baseball's greats.

** The actual script has the ball as being signed by Dan Brouthers, who played two seasons (1891-1892) for the Brooklyn Grooms, the team now known as the Dodgers. This aligns neatly with Casper dying in January 1895. Presumably the change to 'Duke Snider' was made during production/post-production, Snider being a player the audience would be more familiar with.

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LiveActionAdaptation from TheNineties of the ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'' cartoons and comics. Directed by Brad Silberling (who went on to do ''Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2004'') and produced by (who else?) Creator/StevenSpielberg. The first feature film ever to have a [=CGI=] character in the lead role, beating ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' by six months.

* ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'' (1998)--the second of the two Saban-produced movies--showcases the meeting with Harvey Comics' Wendy, The Good Li'l Witch, when his uncles take him on a vacation where Wendy's aunts ''just coincidentally happened'' to be at the same place, albeit fleeing from a warlock who's trying to kill Wendy. It also has almost nothing to do with the first movie and for that matter contradicts Casper's backstory AGAIN. Was also the introduction of a then young Music/HilaryDuff.

* KiddieKid: Casper. He is twelve years old, has a toy train named Hootie, and sees [[spoiler:a baseball]] as a treasure. Perhaps justified, since, considering what happens to [[spoiler:Dr. Harvey]], it is implied that becoming a ghost de-matures people.

* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Amelia's angel reveals that this is the reason James had such a hard time tracking her down; because he and Kat loved her so well when she was alive, she had no "unfinished business," and went straight to heaven instead of becoming a ghost the way he assumed she had.]]