http://www.viewpoints.com/Ghost-Dad-1990-reviews Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:36:11 GMT Latest reviews about Ghost Dad - 1990 http://www.viewpoints.com/Ghost-Dad-1990-review-0105 <p>How could people like Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier (who directed) make a movie as poor as this one?</p><p>In the beginning of the movie Cosby plays a single dad (widower) who works too hard and has three children, one is a a teenage Diane (Kimberly Russell).  All kinds of good thing hinge upon a deal he hopes to close on Thursday.   Then Cosby dies in a fatal cab accident and becomes a ghost.</p><p>But in movies like this you have to establish what the ghost can and can not do.  Who can hear or see the ghost,  can the ghost walk through walls,  move things or people around,  appear to people  etc. etc.</p><p>Well sometimes he can do things and sometimes he can't.   Sometimes he can pick things up for instance and sometimes he can't  and it seems to be madeup for no purpose as the movie goes on.   Actually the purpose seems to be so we can get a close-up of Cosby making a funny face, or trying to make a funny face.    You give up trying to make sense of anything pretty fast in this movie.  ...</p>... Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:36:11 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Ghost-Dad-1990-review-0105 ChrisJarmick 1