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Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Fantasy; With: Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell and Sidney Poitier; Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video
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The ghost of Leonard Part 6. Scathing reviews (including a D- in Entertainment Weekly) helped save millions of moviegoers from paying to see Bill Cosby mug his way through Ghost Dad in theaters. But with a lot of fast-forwarding through Cosby's silly histrionics, this spiritless rip-off of the classic movie comedy Blithe Spirit offers a few moments of dumb fun. The highlights of the film, directed by Sidney Poitier, are certainly the refreshingly, subversive performances by Twin Peaks' Dana Ashbrook as a teenager-from-hell and Raynor Scheine as the bearded, demented cabbie who sets off the story by driving Cosby off a bridge. ''I like you,'' the cabbie says. ''Do you worship Satan?'' C-
Posted Dec 07, 1990
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