Susie Q (1996)

Directed by

John Blizek

Genre

teen film, ghost film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

G

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ghost from the 1950s named Susie Q helps her parents avoid eviction from their trailer park. Only a teenage boy named Zach can see her when he moves into her old house.

lightheartedwhimsicalnostalgicbittersweetgentlefamily-friendlyhopefulquirky

What happens

Susie Q is a 1996 fantasy-comedy television film directed by John Blizek and starring Justin Whalin, Amy Jo Johnson and Shelley Long. It originally aired on Super RTL in Germany, followed by Disney Channel's airing of it in the United States on October 3, 1996, as a Disney Channel Premiere Film. The film tells the story of a young woman dying with her beau (Bentley Mitchum) on her way to their Winter Formal back in the mid-1950s and coming back to her old house 40 years later in order to help her parents avoid being kicked out of their trailer park home. Later, Zach (Whalin) moves into Susie's (Johnson) old house, but he is the only one who is able to see Susie. The film was given a "TV-G" rating, and was already cut for some profanity, but not all, when it primarily aired on the Disney Channel. This film is the only Disney-related title produced by Saban Entertainment and its extensions. As a project commissioned by Disney on behalf of Super RTL and Disney Channel, it was produced by Saban's adult unit Libra Pictures rather than the main, child-friendly Saban output. It was released as a Disney Channel Premiere Film (DCPF) in 1996, a year before Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOM) made its debut in 1997. However, Disney never owned the Susie Q copyrights until Disney in 2001 acquired Fox Family Worldwide, which includes Saban Entertainment/Libra Pictures and its assets. Susie Q is the only Saban Entertainment property which contains Disney logos and images in promotional and distributional materials also to be directly Disney-branded among the properties including produced in company's both of Saban and Disney era. Consequently Susie Q rights are currently held by The Walt Disney Company through its subsidiary BVS Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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