Ghost dad

Movie
German title	Ghost dad
Original title	Ghost dad
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Sidney Poitier
script	Brent Maddock , Chris Reese , SS Wilson
production	Terence Nelson
music	Bill Conti
camera	Andrew Laszlo
cut	Pembroke J. Herring
occupation
Bill Cosby : Elliot Hopper Kimberly Russell : Diane Hopper Denise Nicholas : Joan Ian Bannen : Edith Moser Christine Ebersole : Carol Barry Corbin : Emery Collins Salim Grant : Daniel Hopper Brooke Fontaine : Amanda Hopper Omar Gooding : Stuart Dana Ashbrook : Tony Ricker Arnold Stang : Mr. Cohen Dakin Matthews : Mr. Seymour Raynor Notes : Curtis Burch

Ghost Dad (Alternative title: Ghost Dad - news of Papa , Bill Cosby: Our dad is a ghost ) is an American comedy film of Sidney Poitier in the year 1990 .

action

The widower Elliot Hopper has no time for his three children. He is considered a workaholic and is the only African American to work in a management position in a large, reputable company. Hopper gets into a taxi. The driver turns out to be a devil worshiper. He mistakenly thinks Elliot is Satan and panics. The taxi comes off the road and falls off a bridge into a river. Hopper drags himself back onto the street. To his dismay, he finds that he is no longer visible to most people - he has turned into a spirit. He gets stressed again: His time as a ghost is limited and he has to secure the future of his children before he gets to the hereafter. However, disembodiment as a spirit also has advantages: it can slip through telephone lines, sit on lampshades unnoticed, walk through walls, and it has many other useful skills that are not available to the living. The end of the story develops unexpectedly. With the help of a "ghost doctor" and his children, the troubled father can slip back into his mortal shell. However, he no longer feels that he has been fired as bad, since he learned during the time of his “being in the spirit” that his children, whom he had initially neglected due to his work, are the most important thing in his life.

Reviews

• Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film was not funny. He criticized the script as inconsistent and illogical. He also wrote that while Bill Cosby was not a great actor, he played acceptable on the television shows. Ebert surprised the "exaggerated" portrayal of Cosby in this film, which is in contrast to the portrayals of the other actors.

• Rita Kempley wrote in The Washington Post that the film has no depth. He is too happy to be considered witty.

• Lexicon of international film : "Family-friendly entertainment with a few nice gags ..."

Awards

• Omar Gooding, Salim Grant and Brooke Fontaine were nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1991 .

Web links

• Ghost Dad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ghost Dad at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chicago Sun-Times , June 29, 1990
2. ^ The Washington Post , June 29, 1990
3. ↑ Ghost Dad. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .