On the big screen Cosby's heartfelt decency continues to come across as blandness.
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08/04/09
Ghost Dad (1990)
6
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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... [More]
Starring: Bill Cosby, Salim Grant, Brooke Fontaine, Kimberly Russell
Director: Sidney Poitier
Reviews for Ghost Dad
1 - 17 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Bill Cosby Sidney Poitier = Crap
02/02/08
No review available.
07/04/05
No review available.
03/24/05
No review available.
06/04/04
Unctuous, flat and phony, a farce that has the pace of a Broadway bus at rush hour.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
01/21/03
No review available.
12/01/02
No review available.
10/31/02
Should have been titled "Cosby's Ghost Film Career". And to think Poitier directed this thing. It's a TV comedy skit gone wrong.
08/08/02
No review available.
08/07/02
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.
07/29/02
Almost makes you forget how funny Bill Cosby can be.
07/29/02
All the characters are cardboard cutouts, the sentimental moments between pratfalls are very strained and even the special effects are sometimes gratuitous.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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