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GHOST AMONG US
Short Synopsis
Three American girls living in London rent a large old house
overlooking Hampstead Heath. Unknown to them, the house was
originally part of the country house of Sir Jerome Kennington,
the seventh Earl of Arden -- murdered on his wedding night by
a group of masked men who broke into his house and abducted
his bride, Lady Alicia Mannerly. That was in 1811, and now Sir
Jerome's specter lives on in the house that remains from the
original Arden Manor after a fire destroyed most of the manor
house in 1925. Eternally 28 years old, Jerome is a prisoner
of the house until he discovers the identity of his murderers
and the fate of his beloved bride. This is a next to impossible
task, since Jerome cannot leave the house.
In the fall of 1988 television newscaster Dierdre Hall goes
to London from New York to work for a newly-installed cable
network. With her is Natalie Ladd, a 'fantasy' artist who is
being featured in November of that year at the Camden Arts Festival.
When they arrive, their friend Charlotte Lewis, who has already
been living in London for a year and a half, has rented them
the house in Hampstead. Charlotte is a well-known fashion photographer
who is trying to make a name for herself photographing street
life in London.
For over a hundred years, Jerome has been waiting for someone
to come to the house (first Arden Manor, then the remaining
structures) who will be able to see and hear him; the three
Americans are the ones. Jerome enlists them to discover the
outcome of his story and free his soul. This involves the women
in research into the history of Hampstead and London, and with
the descendant of Jerome and Alicia. They eventually discover
the identity of Jerome's murderer and Alicia's kidnapper.
The women are assisted by a Russian filmmaker working for the
BBC, a Socialist singer/songwriter who happens to be Sir Jerome's
descendant, and a Norwegian Research Biologist (who also provide
the romantic interests). By the end of the film they have discovered
the surprising secret of the story of Jerome and Alicia, a secret
that directly affects the lives of Dierdre and Robin Herald,
the singer.
They have also discovered a common cause in the fight against
animal experimentation; one that Paul Harkness, the biologist,
first brings to their attention and in which Jerome is instrumental
in assisting them to liberate the laboratory animals from an
experimental laboratory at the University of London, where Paul
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