Ghost Dad (1990)
Director:
Sidney Poitier
Tagline:
« He’s been walking through doors. He’s been falling through floors. He’s been going through a lot lately, but he’s still Dad. »
Actors:
Elliot Hopper
Diane Hopper
Joan
Sir Edith Moser
Carol
Rating:
(8’841 votes)
(8’841 votes)
Quotes:
« Elliot Hopper: Now, you listen to me, you little bag of pig puke! You mention one word to anybody about this, and so help me, I'll do things to you that you can't even imagine! You try to threaten me? I don't get frightened. I GIVE frighten, you little twerp! What do you think about this?
»
[raises a flashlight to face, which disappears]
« Stuart: [screams in fright]
« Elliot Hopper: Hah!
»
« Stuart: [faints]
« Elliot Hopper: Good night.
»
« Elliot Hopper: Cancel the 5.
»
« Carol: Oh, no! You can't cancel the 5.
»
« Elliot Hopper: Then put the 5 at 4, and then cancel at 4.
»
« Elliot Hopper: You know, one of the good things about being a ghost is that lights on, lights off, I'm still here.
»
« Diane Hopper: [groans] Dead people can be such jerks. I hope… I HOPE this is Tony.
»
« Elliot Hopper: I don't think so, because he's probably still sitting in the middle of the street wondering what happened to him!
»
« Diane Hopper: [sighs]
« Mr. Emery Collins: Hopper, where the hell have you been?
»
Trailer:
Ghost Dad
Runtime:83 minutes
Plots:
A widowed father tries to support his children after he becomes a ghost in an accident.
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is currently working on a deal. His late wife’s illness was very expensive and this deal could bring them out of the red. But he gets into a cab that the maniac driver crashes, and the next thing he realizes is that he’s floating around and landing in the lab of a scientist who studies the paranormal. He asks the scientist to send him back so he can finish the deal and make sure his children will be taken care of when he’s gone for good.
