Ghost Town

A sweet sad comedy, with Tail Leone and Ricky Jarvis truly play the main characters. Ricky dies for almost 7 minutes having a normal procedure and then he can see "Dead People" who all want to have one thing left in their once lives finished.Truly this is a feel good movie, wonderful characters played by great actors, truly comes across

This is a great film, but there is an error in the description. It states the character, a dentist himself, had a dental procedure which caused him to see dead people. It was a colonoscopy not a dental procedure.

Liked that it (finally) got to what matters most in life.

I don’t usually watch movies that involve ghosts or the paranormal, but I took a chance on this one and it was well worthwhile. Very well done all around with a good ending. Well worth watching.

The plot starts with an amusing uptight dentist then takes several wonderful, unexpected turns. This is a film that reminded me how great movies can be.

I loved all the actors, and the characters they portrayed. Funny and sometimes sad, but very enjoyable.

Good movie.

Film combines dimensions of reality all with the great comic performance of Gervais. Leoni is the weak linkin this, there is zero chemistry between her and Gervais. Very funny, well-acted. Highly recommend.

Une comédie dramatique excellente, plein de rigolade et une histoire qui fait réfléchir positivement :-) A voir et à revoir

Une bonne comédie US, très agréable avec Ricky Gervais toujours brillant et plein de finesse, la sublime Téa Léoni, qui décidément excelle dans tous les registres, avec une mention spéciale dans les comédies et le charisme irrésistible de Greg Kinnear, doué même quand il joue les sales types en rédemption.

Llegó en perfecto estado, además, los detalles mencionaban que solo estaba doblada en inglés con subtítulos, pero también venía en francés y español; así que fue perfecto.

Yet another film about ghosts, but I enjoyed this one more than most.It was appropriately advertised with a reference to the line spoken in  The Sixth Sense [DVD] [1999 ] by little Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment). Where Cole Sear said "I see dead people," this film has been advertised with a similar comment about the central character of this film, played by Ricky Gervais: "He sees dead people - and they annoy him."Imagine "The sixth sense" remade as a comedy, with Haley Joel Osment's little boy replaced by a misanthropic dentist with the people skills of David Brent from "The Office" (Link: The Office - Complete Series One & Two and The Christmas Specials [2001] [DVD ] ) and you have "Ghost Town." At times this is very funny, at times quite touching, and always entertaining.Bertram Pincus (Gervais) is an English dentist working in New York. He likes his job because most of the people he meets cannot talk back to him when he's working on their teeth and because it's a job in which the fact that he is incredibly rude to everyone doesn't matter too much. The role is like a cross between the "boss from hell" characters Ricky Gervais plays as the museum director in "Night at the Museum" and David Brent in "the office."In the first few minutes of the film most viewers will wonder whether Bertram Pincus is so rude because he hates people or because most of the people he meets are complete idiots. You rapidly realise that it's a bit of both, and the humour of the insults Pincus constantly throws at everyone around him fall into two categories. Many of his over-the-top insults are a response to ridiculous behaviour and work as humour because he is actually saying what most people would think but very few people would dare to say out loud.In other instances the insults are uncalled for and the humour consists of Gervais and the scriptwriters seeing how outrageous he can be.Dr Pincus goes into hospital for a routine operation, dies on the operating table and is quickly revived, but when he recovers he can see and hear all the many ghosts who are haunting New York.As in many ghost-story films, the premise is that dead people who stay around on earth do so because they have unfinished business. As soon as they realise that Pincus can see and hear them, he is besieged by ghosts who want him to help them take care of these various issues.A ghost called Frank (Greg Kinnear) had been an unscrupulous but persuasive rat who cheated on his archaologist wife Gwen (Tea Leoni). He convinces himself that the business he has to complete before he moves on is to stop his widow making another bad marriage. As the human rights lawyer who is now courting Gwen (Bill Campbell) appears from Frank's perspective too good to be true, Frank persuades Pincus to try to break up their romance.In trying to do this, Bertram Pincus is forced for the first time in years to concern himself with how another human being thinks of him. This is the start of a process which continues as Bertram's long-dormant conscience begins to awaken. To get dead people out of his hair, Pincus has to abandon years of treating the living like dirt and try to act like a decent human being, with results which are as touching and surprising as they are comical.A certain number of plot inconsistencies, but in general this is a good, professionally made film which was great fun to watch. A lot of the jokes are very funny, Gervais is, as usual, brilliant, and the supporting cast are also excellent. Strongly recommended. The Sixth Sense [DVD] [1999The Office - Complete Series One & Two and The Christmas Specials [2001] [DVD

The opening scene we see Frank (Greg Kinnear) walking along being questioned by his wife, Gwen, (played by Téa Leoni - the beautiful (ex)wife of David Duchovny) about an apartment - that he has actually started looking at for his mistress. Just as the smooth talker Frank reassures Gwen that it was for them, he meets an untimely end; staying in the outfit he died in.Meanwhile, we meet Bertram Pincus (played by Ricky Gervais) who works as a dentist who is constantly tired of listening to people and is disinterested in his work colleagues - he even sneaks out of the office whilst Dr. Prashar and the other staff meet to celebrate the birth of his new baby.So Bertram dislikes people and we even see him not hold the elevator for a lady who lives in his building when she is struggling with an enormous box. Up he goes to his bachelor pad to prepare for an operation.It is during this operation that he dies - for 7 minutes - and this gives him the ability to hear the dead. Of course, all these ghosts are desperate to put things right with their loved ones and they all chase after him. This is Bertram's worst nightmare. One of the ghosts, Frank, makes him a deal - look after Gwen and save him from marrying her new partner (who Frank dislikes) and he will keep the other ghosts away.So begins an odd courtship. It is hilarious - especially the part when he's in her apartment and meets her 'puppy' - a Great Dane - which was going to be put down until Gwen rescued him. And you, as the viewer, seem to fall in love with this odd dentist as well. So it comes as a shock when things don't go to plan and Bertram realises that the only way for him to get Gwen is to change: to help these ghosts with their problems. That way, they can 'find their way home.'It's only when Bertram dies (again) himself, that Frank sees that Gwen has fallen for Bertram, that he is released. So everyone has been changed by the experience....A sweet love story. I wanted to watch it over and over again. And each time I watch it, I realised how clever the narrative is. Bertram is often having a three way dialogue. Parts of the story, we see Ricky Gervais, and he is HILARIOUS.