Ghosts Can't Do It

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy / Romance

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Julie Newmar as Angel
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Bo Derek as Katie O'Dare Scott
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Anthony Quinn as Scott
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Don Murray as Winston
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies1 / 10

The worst film perhaps ever

I don't like the Razzies much, but I have to agree with them for once. Ghosts Can't Do It won worst picture, worst director, worst actress and worst supporting actor for the artist who debuted here, Donald Trump. Trump and co-star Leo Damian were also nominated for worst new star, but that went to Sofia Coppola. In retrospect, that seems rather mean. Actually, it seems a lot mean because I've watched untold movies some would consider bad and this movie is without a doubt the very worst film I've ever seen.

Somehow, John Derek decided to make a movie worse than Bolero and Tarzan the Ape Man and I didn't think he had it in him. But oh wow - he did.

Katie (Derek) and Scott (Anthony Quinn) are thirty years apart in age but have a fulfilling, sex-filled relationship. Unfortunately, he has a heart attack and learns that they can never horizontally dance again, so instead of looking into alternate therapy or a second opinion, he kills himself.

Julie Newmar plays his guardian angel, who is so bad at her job that she allows him to return to Eartha and come up with a plan where Katie will kill Fausto (Damian) and he'll possess the body. This comes after she's traveled the world and tried to find the perfect sex partner, all while running her husband's business and wheeling and dealing against Trump, who plays himself.

The end of this? Fausto accidentally drowns and Scott is unable to possess Fausto's dead body, yet when Katie revives him with CPR, Scott can possess him. Huh? I just watched this movie only to watch it change the rules in the end after hours of Anthony Quinn violently pissing all over his acting legacy in a performance that defines and goes beyond bad.

I mean, let's look at the dialogue in this and imagine it in Trump's bombastic tone and Bo's stilted voice:

Donald Trump: Be assured, Mrs. Scott, that in this room there are knives sharp enough to cut you to the bone and hearts cold enough to eat yours as hors-d'oeuvres.

Katie O'Dare Scott: You're too pretty to be bad!

Donald Trump: You noticed.

Also, if Katie's last name is Scott, her dead husband's name is Scott Scott?

The credits for this have this line: And Yes, That Really Was Donald Trump.

Are we to doubt that that is the man himself? Is it an android?

Also, one more time, this movie's happy ending is an innocent man dying so that Bo Derek can keep on banging a man thirty years older than her who has spent most of the movie in a tube lit like a swimming pool bellowing dialogue while she refers to him as "Great man."

Reviewed by MartinHafer1 / 10

This might have worked as a comedy....but it wasn't...and folks in theaters STILL laughed.

"Ghosts Can't Do It" has the distinction of winning the Razzie Award for the Worst Picture of 1990. This isn't surprising, as Bo Derek has won three Razzies for Worst Actress (including one for this film). For this reason, I decided to watch this movie.

When the story begins, Kate (Derek) and Scott (Anthony Quinn) are desperately in love despite the huge age difference between them. However, when Scott has a heart attack and is unable to make love to her, he takes his own life. Out of the blue, however, he's magically able to talk with Kate and carries on a detached relationship with her. As for the audience, they can also hear him and see his giant head floating on the screen...an odd effect to say the least.

Because Scott and Katie cannot touch each other, Scott devises a plan. Despite having no assurance whatsoever that it will work, he wants Katie to make love to other guys so he can inhabit their bodies and experience her. Later, he even suggests they arrange for a studly guy to die so Scott can take over his body...and the duo can live happily ever after.

The plot is silly and it seems like it's all just an excuse for Derek to take off her clothes again and again. While she is not much of an actress, she at least handled the nude bits well...and the film is sort of like a soft core porno film with too much story.

So is it any good? Certainly not. It's an embarrassing role for Quinn...he is capable of doing better and you wonder WHY he accepted this role. The same can be said for veteran actor Don Murray. I assume both must have needed the money. The plot is stupid, the dialog is even stupider and Derek, though gorgeous, brings nothing more to the movie. A silly, misguided movie.

Reviewed by sunwarrior131 / 10

Inept In Every Way

"Ghost Can't Do" stars Anthony Quinn and non-actress Bo Derek in a sex comedy that tells a story of a dead man who came back as a ghost by telling his wife to go after the killer who put him to death. Suprisingly,it also stars Donald Trump,who portrayed himself but still won the Razzie's Worst Supporting Actor.

But there is a lot more wrong than the appearance of Trump.The story was disastrous. The performances are poor as Bo Derek offers nothing except the exposure of her body to the viewer. Overall,this was inept in every way.

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