BogusImaginary friends are good to have around until you need to move furniture across town.Thankfully, the orphan in this fantasy doesn't have much in the way of physical baggage to relocate.After a car crash claims his mother, 7-year-old Albert (Haley Joel Osment) is shipped from Las Vegas to New Jersey to live with his new guardian Harriet (Whoopi Goldberg).To stay amused while he gets accustomed to his new surroundings, Albert dreams up a lively French performer, Bogus (Gérard Depardieu), to deliver the Vegas-style entertainment he enjoyed with his mother. But things get interesting when Bogus becomes real.While this 1996 family feature tries to tackle childhood grief, its schmaltzy script and asinine acting gets in the way. In fact, Bogus becomes more of an annoyance than an emotional aide pretty fast. Besides, every French performer - imaginary or not - drinks way too much wine to be around children. Red Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

Such a heartwarming story about friendship and life's true values. What an amazing film! This is definitely a "do not miss".

I had never heard of this bizarre film before it turned up on TV last night.When I say bizarre, this isn't because of the story, which is interesting and unusual, nor because of the performances which are mostly fine: Osment, as a very young boy, is as good as he subsequently proved himself to be, Depardieu has a lot of fun, and the supports are all fine. Only Whoopi Goldberg finds herself at the disadvantage of a character which requires her to be singlemindedly unsympathetic until a sudden (and, frankly, unconvincing) epiphany near the end).The casting leans towards the bizarre, the point where Goldberg starts to be able to see Osment's imaginary friend is implausible enough to up the bizarreness quotient noticeably, and the full-on Fred and Ginger dance routine delivered by Goldberg and Depardieu, while very nearly worth the admission price in its own right, is (let's be honest here) full-throttle bizarreness made flesh.An interesting experiment - not wholly successful, but with enough good points to make it worth a watch.

Whoopi Goldberg has always been one of my favorite actresses, but in this film, we really get to see her angry miserable side which she plays so well, not to say she was horrible, but i really wanted to see that big whoopi grin, but i guess it wasn't in her characters makeup.The story was ok, the ending was not as i would have imagined, which i thought would be the falling in love, so the little boy could have a mother and father who loved him and lived happy ever after, and moved to Las Vegas. All the boy wanted, when his mother died, was to carry on her dream, and become a circus magician, but that didn't come to be, hardly a happy ending then. It's an ok movie, with a few really funny lines.