Ghost Town DVD Review
Ghost Town is a charming little film starring Ricky Gervais (“Extras”, “The Office”), who plays Bertram Pincus, D.D.S., a dentist who is going through life having as little contact with people as possible. He doesn’t like chit-chat, he won’t hold the elevator for his neighbors, he shuns his co-workers, and he steals cabs from stressed out widows.
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When Pincus goes in to the hospital for a routine colonoscopy, he insists on being put under against the better judgment of his physician. After he is discharged, Pincus starts seeing things that no one else can—specifically people. Turns out, these people are dead, and they won’t leave him alone, because he is the only one who can see them.
Thinking something odd must have happened to him during his procedure, Pincus returns to the hospital and discovers that he died and was revived—although technically he was only dead for less than seven minutes, which the doctor must have thought offered some comfort.
When smooth talker/dead guy Frank Herlihy (played by Greg Kinnear) realizes that Pincus can help him “save” his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni), who is about to remarry, he strikes up a deal. If Pincus can break up the impending marriage, Frank will get all the ghosts off of Pincus’s back. But when Pincus falls for Gwen, things her tricky.
Ghost Town was co-written and directed by David Koepp (who also write and directed a much scarier ghost story called A Stir of Echoes). It costars Aasif Mandvi (“Jericho”, “ER”) as Dr. Prashar, who shares an office with Pincus, and Kristen Wiig (“Saturday Night Live”) as Pincus’s colonoscopy surgeon.
The leads are all strong actors doing what they do best. Kinnear (Baby Mama, Little Miss Sunshine) is great at playing these conceited roles without taking it over the top and somehow always managing to remain likeable. Gervais is hilarious, as always. Leoni (You Kill Me, Spanglish) holds her own in this comedy, and is building a solid comedic portfolio of films.
Ghost Town is presented in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, with audio in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, as well as French or Spanish 2.0 Surround tracks, and English, French and Spanish subtitles. Extras include a highly entertaining feature-length audio commentary with Koepp and Gervais; a behind the scenes featurette with cast and crew; “Ghostly Effects,” which showcases some of the ghostly effects created for the film; and “Some People Can Do It,” a gag reel full of Gervais et al.
Ghost Town is rated PG-13 for “some strong language, sexual humor and drug references.”
The film is funny, sweet and satisfying, and fans of Kinnear and/or Gervais will likely fall for its charm.
I give Ghost Town 3.5 out of 5 stars.