A father who is better loved by his family after his death sounds like a good idea for a ghost story, even for a comedy ghost story, though it might have been better had Henry James written it. The good idea sounds less good as soon as we get a load of the assembled family: the mugging Bill Cosby and three offspring of unnatural cuteness. (Sidney Poitier, the director, keeps affixing them with can't-help-himself closeups.) The subsidiary idea of a ghost who can't be seen in the light, only in the dark, is a good one too, but a hard one for this movie to stick to. Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas. (1990) — Duncan Shepherd
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