Ghost Town–Movie Review
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Ghost Town is an American comedy with an unusual British feel to it. Much of this comes from Ricky Gervais, a British comedian who plays the main character, a curmudgeonly dentist named Bertram Pincus. (The script provides a typically unconvincing explanation of why a British dentist is living and working in New York City.)
Pincus has little use for people. The thing he enjoys most about his job is that it lets him stuff cotton into people’s mouths so that he doesn’t have to listen to them. His life is turned upside down when a botched medical procedure leaves him temporarily “dead”, after which he is able to see dead people in the manner of The Sixth Sense.
This is a real pain because all of the ghosts want his help in resolving something that they left undone. The pushiest of the ghosts is Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who wants to keep his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni) from remarrying. But Pincus start to fall for Gwen himself, which puts him in the middle of a love triangle (or maybe quadrangle.)
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