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Ghost Dad is a 1990 comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier and starring Bill Cosby, in which a widower's spirit is able to communicate with his children after his death. It was critically eviscerated, and wound up on many critics' "Worst of 1990" and "Worst of all time" lists. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ...
Brent Maddock is a writer/director who has worked on several high profile projects like Short Circuit, Tremors, and Wild Wild West. ...
S.S. Wilson is a writer of cult and mainstream science fiction, and is probably best known for writing (and occasionally directing), with collaborator Brent Maddock, the Tremors film and television series. ...
William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. ...
Denise Nicholas, born in 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, is an actress and activist who was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement. ...
Leonard Barrie Barry Corbin (born October 16, 1940 in Lamesa, Texas) is a U.S.-based character actor with over 100 credits in film and television and several in computer gaming. ...
Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ...
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ...
William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. ...
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The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus (breath). // The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath (compare spiritus asper), but also soul, courage, vigor, ultimately from a PIE root *(s)peis- (to blow). In the Vulgate, the Latin word translates Greek (πνευμα), pneuma (Hebrew (רוח) ruah), as...
Plot
Elliot Hopper (Bill Cosby) is a recently widowed father of three who has nearly bankrupted the family in attempts to save his lingering wife. Elliot is working on a business deal to get the family out of debt when he climbs into the taxicab of a maniacal Satanist. William Henry Bill Cosby, Jr. ...
Taxicab, short forms taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride. ...
Satanism is a religious or philosophical movement centered around Satan or another entity identified with Satan, or centered around the forces of nature, particularly human nature, represented by Satan as an archetype. ...
In an attempt to end the ensuing mania, Elliot proclaims that he is in fact Satan and orders the driver to stop the cab immediately. Now overwrought with the confrontation, the driver releases the wheel, and the taxi slams into the barrier of a bridge, and teeters over the river. Before he can exit, the vehicle topples into the ravine, killing both occupants. This article is about the concept of Satan. ...
Rather than awakening to a day of reckoning, Elliot finds himself floating around the lab of a scientist studying the paranormal who agrees to send him back to make sure his children are taken care of. Day of Reckoning is the second full-length release by the Boston based hardcore/metal band Diecast. ...
An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge (e. ...
Critical reaction Since its release, Ghost Dad has been ubiquitously ravaged by critics and has a 0% rating on movie rating website RottenTomatoes.com.[1] Rotten Tomatoes (http://www. ...
Rating the movie 1/2 star out of four, noted Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert characterized the film thusly: The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ...
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. ...
Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
'Ghost Dad' is a desperately unfunny film—a strained, contrived construction that left me shaking my head in amazement… How could Sidney Poitier, a skilled filmmaker with an actor's sense of timing, have been the director of this mess? How did a production executive go for it? Who ever thought this was a good idea?[2]
Box Office - Opening Weekend: $4,803,480
- Domestic: $24,707,633
- Foreign: $714,000
- Worldwide: $25,421,633[3]
The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...
Release
VHS Ghost Dad was been released on VHS by Universal Studios on March 1, 1992. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched...
Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios. ...
DVD The film was realeased on DVD by Good Times Video on May 1, 2001, and as a "Studio Selections" DVD by Universal Studios on March 1, 2005. Size comparison: A 12 cm Sony DVD+RW and a 19 cm Dixon Ticonderoga pencil. ...
Trivia Cosby did play a satanic character in The Devil and Max Devlin. The Devil And Max Devlin is a motion picture from Walt Disney studios released in early 1981 starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby. ...
Raven Symone auditioned out for the role of the youngest daughter but considered too young, she eventually co-starred with Bill in The Cosby Show. The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, first broadcast on September 20, 1984 and ran for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. ...
Novelization As part of the publicity for the movie, a Ghost Dad novelization written by Mel Cebulash was released the year of the film's debut. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ...
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The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...
A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
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ISBN-13 represented as EAN-13 bar code (in this case ISBN 978-3-16-148410-0) The International Standard Book Number, ISBN, is a unique[1] commercial book identifier barcode. ...
A novelization (or novelisation in British English) is a work of fiction that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. ...
References in popular culture - A Magic: the gathering type 2 deck is nick named after this film, being called "Ghost Dad" in reference to the card Ghost Council of Orzhova which is depicted in its art as being composed of ghostly old men.
- In the Family Guy episode "Brian Does Hollywood", Stewie, while hypnotized, says Ghost Dad was the best movie he's seen since Leonard Part 6, another movie Bill Cosby stars in.
Magic: The Gathering (colloq. ...
Family Guy is an Emmy award winning American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ...
“Brian Does Hollywood†is an episode of Family Guy. ...
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External links The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...
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