I can't quite understand why this movie has such a low rating. etc., story will resolve itself with everyone falling in love with loner girl. The story itself is pretty conventional and predictable: the loner girl gets teased by a popular girl (that nobody really likes) who's out to destroy her the popular girl has a cute boyfriend that the loner girl has the hots for, etc. And what's so clever about it is how it uses them as a tool of audience manipulation AND has the evil ghosts use Pullman in exactly the same way that we're being used. There's something enormously touching about this film and the way it deals with losses - Pullman's wife and Casper's mother, in particular.
