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What about last Saturday night, huh? Close! “Oh, Diane, how can you screw up Spaghetti-Os?”

Bill Cosby stars in a feature length picture directed by Sidney Poitier! To quote my grandmother, “He has done better work.” That could apply to either man, but she was referring to Mr. Poitier. In fact, at the end of this picture she said, “Well, that was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.” While it certainly was no Midnight in Paris, it was also no Battlefield Earth.

One of the worst aspects of Battlefield Earth was its seemingly infinite length. The same cannot be said for Ghost Dad’s 80 minute runtime. As a teenager I came up with a phrase to evaluate movies like this, the crap barrier. The crap barrier is 90 minutes. If a feature movie is shorter than 90 minutes then it is most likely crap. While not always true, if the director or studio cannot find 90 minutes of film to put out, then what are the chances the 85~ minutes actually were much better? The movie 88 Minutes just let’s you know in the title that it is not a good movie! Maybe the same could be said for something titled Ghost Dad.