O'Hara's Wife (1982)

A workaholic attorney (Edward Asner) is finally persuaded by his wife (Mariette Hartley) to take some time off for a vacation to Europe. But the evening before their trip, the wife has a cerebral hemorrhage that leaves her brain dead and eventually she is taken off of life support. But shortly after her funeral, she appears to her husband as a ghost (or hallucination) though no one else can see or hear her. Directed by William Bartman whose only directorial film credit this is. Although this was a theatrical film, it cries out TV movie. Not only Asner and Hartley but Tom Bosley and Ray Walston are in it too. Only Jodie Foster as Asner's daughter suggests otherwise. After its grim beginning, it turns comedic and while the presence of a being no one else can see or hear is usually foolproof material for laughs, this film can't even get that right. There are zero special effects, they won't even let Hartley walk through a wall or door. The film's score by Artie Butler reeks 1980s right down to the mawkish power ballad sung by Billy Preston that closes the movie. With Kelly Bishop and Perry Lang.