I’d never seen it before but I’d heard about it so I decided to give it a watch
holy crap man that was really bad
it literally had no redeeming qualities
Bill Cosby you should have known better
I cannot comprehend how anybody thought this was a good idea
the ending is a total cop-out too because ghost dad magicks back to life, completely negating any drama and making the story meaningless
and now looking it up on Google I see it was directed by Sidney Portier. really? How could such a great name in cinema be associated with this disaster?
I never saw it but when I went on the Universal Studios tour in the summer of '89, they were filming four movies on the lot at the time. Back to the Future II and III (concurrently), some Benji movie, and Ghost Dad. The entire tour I kept looking around hoping I’d spot Bill Cosby hanging around.
Just the typical backlot stuff they’ve been showing people for decades… Jaws, Psycho house, etc.
Also, IIRC, we saw the house from The Great Outdoors, we drove down the street that The Burbs was filmed on and they pointed out that neighbor kid Cory Feldman’s house in that movie was also the house used as 1313 Mockingbird Lane in The Munsters (I think Desperate Housewives filmed on it more recently).
Saw the A-Team van and Columbo’s station wagon parked in random spots.
That was Leonard VI. He actually gave people who said they saw it their money back at one of his concerts.
Ghost was the biggest thing at the box office that year and Cosby was the biggest thing on TV for the entire '80s, so I can see why an exec may have listened. You’d think they’d have asked for a script before cutting the check, though.
