Ghost Dad/ Bustin' Loose (1990) Rating: Starring: Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson Director: Sidney Poitier, Oz Scott Category: Comedy Studio: Goodtimes Subtitles: Spanish,French Length: 178 mins     Ghost Dad (1990, 84 min) - On the verge of completing a major business deal, over-worked widower Elliot Hopper (Bill Cosby) winds up trapped between the here and the hereafter when a harrowing taxicab ride ends in the bottom of the river. Now a ghost, he must learn how to be seen and heard so that he can take care of his family in an outrageous, out-of-body comedy that co-stars Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas, and Ian Bannen (Gandhi). This warm and whimsical fantasy reunites Cosby with Oscar winner Sidney Poitier (Lillies Of The Field), who directed him in the hit comedies Uptown Saturday Night, Let's Do It Again, and A Piece Of The Action. Co-written by Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson (Short Circuit, Tremors), and scored by Academy Award winner Henry Mancini (Breakfast At Tiffany's, Victor/ Victoria), this family film is so funny, it'll raise the dead! Bustin' Loose (1981, 94 min) - Richard Pryor stars in, co-produced, and wrote the story for this wild, wacky, and warm-hearted road movie with a difference, which later inspired a TV series. When budget cuts close a children's home in Philadelphia, Vivian Perry (Cicely Tyson) decides to save eight special-education students by taking them to her aunt's farm outside Seattle. In desperate need of a driver / mechanic for the bus, she teams up with Joe Baxton (Pryor), an equally desperate ex0con who hates women and children. Fueled by Roberta Flack's songs, the action is fast and funny as this delightfully mismatched group battles the bus, the law, the Ku Klux Klan, and even each other on their way west. But it all ends happily for the kids, the con, and the straight-laced lady.