Do You Believe in Miracles?
10 Exercises to Stay Spiritually Fit
20 Scriptures That Bring Hope to Any Situation
5 Ways to Revive Your Dream!
7 Ways to Plant Seeds of Greatness in Your Life
20 Powerful Declarations to Fight Discouragement
5 Ways to Stay Healthy This Summer
5 Tips for Better Sleep
7 Top Health Issues Facing Today’s Women
Celebrities Who Won't Back Down
Words of Wisdom from Dr Joyce Brothers
A Conversation with Minnesota Wild Center Matt Cullen
Yes, Gratitude Works!
10 Ways to To Handle Life Changes With Courage
The Fruits of Desire
Nurturing a Healthy Marriage
10 Ways to Get Over a Hurtful Past
Ten Things Every Dad Should Tell His Son
| Lowest Recommended Age: | High School |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated PG-13 for some strong language, sexual humor and drug references |
| Profanity: | Some strong language and crude references including two f-words |
| Nudity/Sex: | Sexual references, some crude, including prostitution and adultry, implied comic nudity, potty humor |
| Alcohol/Drugs: | Drinking, prescription drug abuse |
| Violence/Scariness: | People hit by buses, ghosts, mummies |
| Diversity Issues: | Some ethnic humor |
| Movie Release Date: | September 19, 2008 |
| DVD Release Date: | December 30, 208 |
Bertram Pincus, D.D.S. sees dead people. And he’s very crabby about it.
Bertram (Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the original British version of “The Office”) doesn’t much like any kind of people, living or dead. He likes being a dentist because the people he deals with mostly have their mouths full of cotton. After a bad reaction to the anesthetic during a colonoscopy has him “dead” for seven minutes, he can suddenly see ghosts everywhere and they start following him around like the Verizon wireless network. They all want him to do something so that they can rest in peace but he has no more interest in helping them than he does with the living humans in his life, including his partner, his patients, or the very pretty woman who lives in his building.
It turns out she is Gwen (Téa Leoni ). Her late husband Frank (Greg Kinnear) is the most persistent of the ghosts because he wants Bertram to stop Gwen from marrying a human rights lawyer (Billy Campbell). Betram decides the only way to do that is to woo her himself.
The story is creaky and predicatable — a little humiliation humor here, a little learning that it’s relationships that matter there, not to mention the colonoscopy humor. Director David Koepp is better known as a screenwriter (“Spider-Man” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”). The script is over-long and clunky and his visual sense is a little claustrophobic and sit-com-ish. But Gervais and Leoni are so completely charming that they make it work. It isn’t often that you see a couple really connect in a movie. Usually that moment is glossed over with a syrupy montage or having them discover that they both collect bottle caps or something. But here the easy and genuine (and sometimes politically incorrect) laughter Bertram and Gwen share keeps us smiling with them.
posted September 19, 2008 at 12:30 am
There are few ghost movies as good as “The Ghost and Mrs Muir”. I also loved the TV show “Topper” growing up, though it might not have passed the standards folks (some racy humor for those days!). It seems to be a reworking of “Ghost Whisperer”, too.
posted September 19, 2008 at 4:15 am
If the film is little more than Gervais’ attempt to break out of the “cult following” category and find some mainstream American success, more power to him. He deserves it, and Ghost Town is an auspicious start.
When it comes to success he seems climbing Ricky Gervais done it in style with
Ghost town. Americans boosting their lives with tiny little tings happen. They are just arrived with so much enthusiasm.. Ghost town is well made cucumber to melt movie lovers’ taste. That is the only big reason I am waiting for this movie. My self is always habited and turn to http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com because it is easy and reliable.
Never break ups. And trusted site to watch movies.
Source(s):
http://www.80millionmoviesfree.com
posted September 20, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Nell, I love your reviews. I rely on your judgment when I consider taking my grandkids to a movie. You mention Heart and Soul as a ghost movie. Do you mean Hearts and Soul? I just love that one.
posted September 20, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Thanks so much for the correction! The title of the movie is “Heart and Souls.” I’ll amend the review to correct the title. I love that movie, too.
posted September 22, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I thought this movie was hysterical. The plot is predictable, but who cares. Mr. Gervais made me laugh so hard I snorted!