Casper: A Spirited Beginning is a direct-to-video prequel/spin-off to the 1995 film Casper, produced by Harvey Comics and Saban Entertainment and released by 20th Century Fox on September 9, 1997. The film shows how Casper became a ghost. At the beginning of the movie Casper is on a train full of ghosts, with no idea of where he is and seems to be completely unaware that he himself is a ghost. Instead of going to Ghost Central, where the train is headed, he is kicked off the train. Casper then finds himself in the city of Deedstown, where he unintentionally scares all of the town's citizens.... Only then does Casper realize that he is indeed a ghost. The movie then moves onto a boy named Chris Carson , a loner with a passionate obsession with the supernatural, and his father, workaholic Tim Carson , who is trying to demolish the Applegate Mansion in order to start his plans of a new renovation for the town. But Tim arrives to see people protesting the demolition of the building, which they consider to be a historic landmark. The group of protesters are being led by Sheila Fistergraff .
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| Release date: | September 9, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Sean McNamara |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Producer: | Rob Kerchner, Jeffrey A. Montgomery, Lance H. Robbins, Mike Upton, Mike Elliott |
| Editor: | John Gilbert |
| Screenplay by: | Jymn Magon, Thomas Hart |
| Adapted from: | Casper the Friendly Ghost |
| Genre: | Comedy |