在这部鬼爸爸喜剧/家庭/奇幻片中,天才老爹饰演一位有三个孩子的鳏夫，在一次意外车祸中丧生，使他变成了鬼。他虽死了，却有很多事要做，除了要完成公司的大企划，更要为儿女赚一笔“安家费”，所以他要求编剧特别宽限他三天的时间去完成……
Elliot Hopper is a widower with three children, he is currently working on a deal. It seems like his wife illness was very costly and this deal could put them out of the red. However he gets into a cab that is driven by a maniac, and Elliot crashes and the next thing he knows he is floating around and finds himself in the lab of a scientist who studies paranormal. Elliot asks the scientist to send him back so that he could finish the deal and make sure that his children are taken care of.
