Product Details

• Actors: Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas, Ian Bannen, Christine Ebersole
• Directors: Sidney Poitier
• Writers: Brent Maddock, Chris Reese, S.S. Wilson
• Producers: David Wisnievitz, Stan Robertson, Terence Nelson
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006IIPK8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #12,920 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Elliot a widower with three children suffers an accident and stays some days in coma. But his spirit leaves his body during that time and turns into a ghost who roams around and only materializes in the dark. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/01/2005 Starring: Bill Cosby Denise Nicholas Run time: 83 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Sidney Poitier

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete and Utter Nonsense, June 26, 2006

By	D. Mataconis (Bristow, Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I must say that I don't understand the reviews giving this movie 4 or 5 stars. Its almost as if they're talking about a different movie.

I am a big Bill Cosby fan, but there is almost nothing about this movie that is worth watching. The premise itself is hard enough to believe, what makes it worse is when the rules of how Cosby's non-corporeal self communicates and interacts with the real world seem to change at the writer's whim. There is absolutely no logic governing how this happens. Why, for example, can he walk through walls but is able to pick up a scotch bottle ? How is it possible for him to talk on the telephone ? For that matter how is it possible for anyone except his children to hear him when he talks ? There are no answers to these questions, because its obvious the writers were just making it up as they went along.

Bill Cosby is a great television actor but his movie career leaves much to be desired (Leonard Part 6 anyone ?), this movie is one example why.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ghost Dad is funny!, December 30, 2002

By	Anne Littlepage "adlittlep" (Richmond, Va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghost Dad (DVD)

Ghost Dad stars Bill Cosby as a workaholic father who is never at home and leaves all of his reponsibilities to his oldest daughter. His oldest daughter begins to resent him when he forgets her birthday. That day also changes Bill's character life forever when a crazed taxi driver picks him up and runs off the bridge causing him to become a ghost. Bill is forced to be at the mercy of his children who help him darken his office at work, so he can be seen. As the movie progresses, Bill's character becomes closer to his children and learns that he needs to make more time for them. This movie has a lot of Bill Cosby's humor, which is really funny at times. One of the funniest scenes is with Bill and a guy in England who calls himself "Ed-ith", instead of "E-dith." Definitely see this movie if you like Bill Cosby.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the movie...Some problems with the DVD, February 4, 2006

By	Kelli (Somewhere out west) - See all my reviews

First I will start by saying that I love this movie. I was excited to get it on DVD. The thing that left me perplexed was how scenes were deleted from the DVD. I was disappointed by that. They added a few scenes, but I felt the gap when a part I knew well was skipped. I'm not sure what I feel about that.