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Ghost Dad

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Ghost Dad (1990)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:1

Rotten:16

Average Rating:2.4/10

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Elliot has a high-powered corporate job and a house full of kids to manage all on his own. So when he's caught in a fatal taxi fender-bender it's more than just a travesty -- it's a terrible... Elliot has a high-powered corporate job and a house full of kids to manage all on his own. So when he's caught in a fatal taxi fender-bender it's more than just a travesty -- it's a terrible inconvenience. Death will have to wait until Elliot gets his house, his career and his love-life in order. [More]

Starring: Bill Cosby, Salim Grant, Brooke Fontaine, Kimberly Russell

Starring: Bill Cosby, Salim Grant, Brooke Fontaine, Kimberly Russell, Ian Bannen, Denise Nicholas

Director: Sidney Poitier

Director: Sidney Poitier

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On the big screen Cosby's heartfelt decency continues to come across as blandness.

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08/04/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Bill Cosby Sidney Poitier = Crap

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02/02/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
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03/24/05
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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06/04/04
Austin O'Connor
Austin O'Connor
Lowell Sun

No review available.

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10/01/03
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

Unctuous, flat and phony, a farce that has the pace of a Broadway bus at rush hour.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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01/21/03
Josh Gilchrist
Josh Gilchrist
Billings Outpost (Montana)

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12/01/02
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)

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10/31/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

Should have been titled "Cosby's Ghost Film Career". And to think Poitier directed this thing. It's a TV comedy skit gone wrong.

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08/08/02
KJB
KJB
IGN Movies

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08/07/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

dismal... There's more preachiness here than in a hundred 'ABC Afterschool Specials,' and the special effects wouldn't pass muster on a local kiddie show.

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07/29/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
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Almost makes you forget how funny Bill Cosby can be.

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07/29/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

All the characters are cardboard cutouts, the sentimental moments between pratfalls are very strained and even the special effects are sometimes gratuitous.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

An earnest premise expounded in Cosby comic style, it goes no deeper than a half-hour of pixilated jollity. But it isn't bad for you.

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01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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The movie doesn't exhibit the slightest attempt to be consistent, logical or sensible in anything, and there are scenes so pointless and unmotivated that attentive audiences will ask what they're doing in the movie.

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