Demi Moore she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover." Moore made her film debut with a brief role in the 1981 teen drama "Choices", directed by Silvio Narizzano. Her second film feature was the 3-D sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen." Moore then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital", playing the role of an investigative reporter until 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in
Demi Moore Girl", which ran at the Circle Repertory Company in fall 1986. In 1988, Moore starred as a prophecy-bearing mother in the apocalyptic drama "The Seventh Sign"—her first outing as a solo film star— and in 1989, she played the quick-witted local laundress and prostitute in Neil Jordan's Depression-era allegory "We're No Angels", opposite Robert De Niro. Her most successful film to date is the supernatural romantic melodrama "Ghost" (1990), which grossed over US$505 million at the box office and was the highest-grossing film of the year. She played a young woman in jeopardy to be protected by the ghost of