We Have a Ghost (2023)
Social media frenzy meets ghostly mystery, pursued by the CIA. A must-watch for paranormal fans and thriller enthusiasts!
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
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We Have a Ghost(2023)
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Overview
After Kevin finds a ghost named Ernest haunting his new home, he becomes an overnight social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of the latter's past, they become targets of the CIA.
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David Harbour
Ernest

Jahi Di'Allo Winston
Kevin Presley

Anthony Mackie
Frank Presley

Erica Ash
Melanie Presley

Niles Fitch
Fulton Presley

Isabella Russo
Joy Yoshino

Tig Notaro
Dr. Leslie Monroe

Tom Bower
Ernest Scheller

Sean Boyd
Young Ernest Scheller

Nicholas X. Parsons
Fake Jesus

Steve Coulter
Deputy Director Arnold Schipley

Scott A. Martin
Sheriff Brown

Jennifer Coolidge
Judy Romano

Peggy Walton-Walker
Ramona Scheller

Sherri Eakin
Young Ramona

Faith Ford
Barbara Mangold

Yoshio Maki
Roy Yoshino

Sarah Voigt
Undercover Agent

Jophielle Love
Blonde Little Girl (Junebug)

Merah Benoit
Little Girl at Park
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It's a nice, sweet movie, but come on... [spoiler] Can't 3 men take on a 70 year old???[/spoiler]
Fun enjoyable watch. Could have been better but why make a big deal about it
Another force fed movie from Netflix. Their "Top 10" list is merely a way to push their movies or movies they didn't significant cash to retain. No actual metrics. The plot is amateur, the execution is even worse. Makes for a boring movie. And a waste of time to watch.
Pointless Unentertaining movie, couldn't end soon enough
:heart:x7 This was a fun little movie. It's nothing special, just a bit of heartwarming fun. It almost feels like a Disney movie - but it is not. How I rate: 1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time 4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this 7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too 9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Sweet little movie, I don’t know why some individuals always expect deep plots. This was heartwarming, had its fun moments and was therefor enjoyable. If you aren’t someone who has to shittalk everything and searches for every single negative aspect of a movie to deliberately rate it badly, give it a shot. It’s well-spent 2 hours.
What a beautiful movie :sob: Imagine having a ghost best friend, though, that would be so cool!
I barley made it though the first hour before I fell asleep nothing special with an obnoxious kid as it’s lead
Brilliant Saturday night movie. Has a bit of everything for everyone. Comedy “horror”, Drama, Action, Adventure. Solid 8/10
It's a family movie. It's sweet and light. [spoiler] I just think the bad guys are very unnecessary, although I understand they're just a pretext to the story. I would have preferred just following the investigation of the two teenagers. [/spoiler]
Importsnt logical flaws in the movie paired withproduct placememt of tiktok makes it a bad movie. Big fat: No
A decent movie ruined by identity politics, atrocious writing and pacing of the movie.
Enjoyable enough but way too long!!
The biggest frickin' attic I've ever frickin' seen.
We Have A Ghost is pretty good but its not as funny as it could have been. There are the occasional comical moments - such as the scene involving fake medium Judy Romano - but its never laugh out loud hilarious. The cast is good though and they manage to engage, even when the script lets them down a little.
Does the job as a family movie, but if you don't have any children to watch it with, you can skip it
The cutest ghost in the history of ghosts in movies. Not even Caspar was this cute.
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This movie is too long. There I said it, in the first sentence. It's not the only issue I have with it, but one of the most obvious ones. Whatever happened to well-structured 90 minutes movies? This one especially tries so hard to ride the wave of late 80s/90s family movies that the running time should've been a given. But nope, let's add a gazillion subplots that don't really matter. The film is not without it's upsides though. David Harbour gives a great performance as ghost Ernest and his relationship with Kevin is believable and leads to a few touching moments during the film. Joy is a fun character. The score it great. It's also nice to see Niles Fitch again, though he's criminally underused as the jerkass older brother. Of course there's also Jennifer Coolidge as a fake medium and she slays as always. I think the film just wants to be too many times all at once. A horror comedy, a family drama, but also a family comedy, an adventure, a little bit of a thriller, a mystery... you name it. While it is possible to cram in many genres at the same time, here it unfortunately doesn't work at all, which leads to tone shifts left and right as well as unresolved plot threads that make junks of the story look completely superfluous. Anthony Mackie's Frank is a douchebag and I don't feel like the father and son conflict is really solved in the end. The mother is just in this movie, but doesn't really contribute. Tig Notaro's character is build up from the very beginning and then suddenly vanishes from the third act without a resolve. The "evil government" plot doesn't go anywhere. The last minute plot twist (which was pretty easy to guess tbh) has some weird implications (infertile woman goes crazy, makes husband commit murder, steals a child... eh what?) and overall the writing just doesn't have a coherent flow. It's a movie that could've been so much more than it's, had it just committed to telling like ...one coherent story.

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://thatshelf.com/we-have-a-ghost-review/ "We Have a Ghost holds a fun concept and a charming cast, but Christopher Landon disappoints with a disjointed, overlong, easily forgettable story. The incessant attempts to approach various subject matters through different genres destroy a screenplay that garnered attention for the simplicity of its premise, but which ends up becoming an unnecessarily complex mess without any idea of what it wants to be. Wasting David Harbour as a non-speaking ghost is one of many questionable creative decisions in this hard-to-remember Netflix film." Rating: D
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