Comments on: Ghost Dad (1990) https://thegoodsreviews.com/ghost-dad-1990/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ghost-dad-1990 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/ghost-dad-1990/#comment-16382 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:12:11 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15133#comment-16382 🤔🤔]]> In reply to zanda.

That’s a great question, zanda. Is a ghost even real?

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]]> By: zanda https://thegoodsreviews.com/ghost-dad-1990/#comment-16381 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:58:05 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15133#comment-16381 is a ghost friendley

]]> By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/ghost-dad-1990/#comment-5531 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:52:54 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15133#comment-5531 In reply to ED.

You make an interesting case that there’s more to this metaphor than my eyes detected. But if so, it’s buried pretty deep here, or would require a reworking of the material. It is an interesting idea!

]]> By: ED https://thegoodsreviews.com/ghost-dad-1990/#comment-5524 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:27:10 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=15133#comment-5524 Having very little experience of Mr
Cosby’s work to start with (Hence no affection for the man or his work to lose), I can only say that by the sound of things this film would have been MUCH funnier if Mr Poitier had starred (If only by dint of being able to play with the High Contrast between his immense gravitas and the goofy high concept: that Mr Poitier’s screen persona is that of the sort of Hard Charger who absolutely WOULD see mere physical death as no excuse to avoid closing a deal is something of a bonus).

Honestly, this film might have one of those inherently delightful High Concepts (“Death is no excuse for lying down on the job”) that also works as a very flexible metaphor for the challenging choices one faces after a near-death experience (For example, a heart attack brought on by a high-pressure job), especially since the ‘flickering’ mentioned could very easily be interpreted as a token of how fragile the protagonist’s grip on life is (I.E. strongly suggesting that even the Dead can push their luck to it’s very limits).

Hopefully someone will work out a way to hose off the basic idea and put it to better use, hopefully without free from painful past associations.

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