Ghost Town [Blu-ray] starring Ricky
Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni,
Jordan Carlos, Dequina Moore
Excellent Movie
Ricky Gervais is brilliant in Ghost Town, playing an unnervingly rude
dentist, Bertram, who dies for a few minutes during surgery and acquires
the unwanted ability to see ghosts. Chased throughout Manhattan by a
gaggle of restless spirits begging him to take care of their unfinished
business on Earth, Bertram turns them all away except Frank (Greg
Kinnear). The latter, a rogue who cheated on his archaeologist widow,
Gwen (Téa Leoni), wants Bertram to intervene in a romance between
Gwen and a starchy activist (Bill Campbell). Misanthropic Bertram has to
polish his relationship patter, but ends up sounding a lot like Gervais
infamous character in the original The Office, unable to complete a
sentence without making others uncomfortable. In time, of course, Bertram
falls for the wonderful Gwen, setting up a bunch of overlapping conflicts.
Cowritten and directed by David Koepp (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull), Ghost Town walks a fine line between comic freshness
and a story idea with elements that have become overly familiar in movies
and on television. Kinnear and Leoni have never been better on screen,
but Ghost Town is well worth seeing because no one like Gervais has
previously played the hapless hero in a high-concept film such as this one.
With Gervais doing his familiar, hilariously discomfiting thing, it really
doesnt matter what kind of movie Ghost Town is. Happily, its a pretty good
film in every respect. --Tom Keogh
Stills from Ghost Town (Click for larger image)
This is a great comedy. Actually it is a coming of age movie and the Ghost
Rules had changed.
I do not want to give a blow by blow detail of the story as that is what you
are buying the DVD for and need some surprises. Be sure to watch the
commentary afterwards and then the moving again armed with the
knowledge of what is being portrayed.
Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) a recently dispatched philandering husband
still hangs around in the ether. Soon Bertram Pincus D.D.S. (Ricky Gravis)
meets with an untimely "end" of sorts and is able to see dead people. So
as tradition has it Frank recruits Bertram to protect Frank's widow from
marrying what seems like an unseemly person. Naturally thing go awry.
We cannot help from kibitzing. But we may also learn something in the
process.
Fort the technically inclined I must admit I only say the Blu-ray version so I
cannot comment on different media presentations. The commentary is with
David Koll and Ricky Gervais. Aside from the standard three languages
they have added Portuguese subtitles for some reason.
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