The Mesmerist (2002)

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story this film tells the grimly comic tale of a badtempered old man Howard Hesseman who cheats death only to go on tormenting the living When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death and able to describe the world beyond things get tricky for his daughter Jessica Capshaw and her beau Neil Patrick Harris of Doogie Howser MD fame who cant get their hands on his estate