The Ghost and the Darkness hits its target as a suspenseful adventure, but it falls into a trap of its own making whenever it reaches for supernatural profundity.
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Director -
Stephen Hopkins -
Producer -
Paul B. Radin , Gale Anne Hurd , A. Kitman Ho -
Screenwriter -
William Goldman -
Distributor -
Paramount Pictures -
Production Co -
Paramount Pictures -
Rating -
R -
Genre -
Adventure -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Oct 11, 1996, Original -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Aug 1, 2013 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$38.6M -
Runtime -
1h 50m -
Sound Mix -
Surround