Independent Films, Film Profiles

Casper: A Spirited Beginning

Casper: A Spirited Beginning is a direct-to-video spin-off of the 1995 film Casper, released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in 1997. Though it is billed as a prequel to Casper, showing how Casper became a ghost, it does not appear to be set in the same continuity as the previous film.
At the beginning of the movie Casper is on a train full of ghosts. And seems to be unaware that he himself is a ghost. Instead of going to the head of ghosts, he is kicked out of the train. The movie then moves onto a boy and his father. The boy is a loner, with an over the top imagination that his workaholic father finds irritating. When he meets Casper they become friends and due to the story telling of this friendship at school, three bullies lock him in an old mansion that is to be blown up ten minutes later. At the end of the film, Casper eats the bomb and saves the boy. Casper and the boy rejoice.