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Ghost Town
There is an experiment by a doctor through routine colonoscopy that seems close to death. He is a dentist named Bertrum Pincus who tries to discover that he is able to talk to the dead suddenly. Everyone wants something from Protom, especially Frank Hurley, who hates him completely.
7 July 1959, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
30 December 1929, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 February 1978, Grinnell, Iowa, USA
27 March 1959, New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1974
December 24, 2009
The pudgy Brit looks right at home here on the big screen, starring in a romantic comedy in which we're asked to believe he might have a chance with Tea Leoni. And you know what? He makes us believe.
September 19, 2008
Naturally, Koepp makes it his business to redeem this unpleasant character and recast him as an acceptable stand-in for a romantic lead. But cynics should not despair; it's not a complete makeover.
November 07, 2008
It is alternately tender, sad and smart. It's also very funny.
February 01, 2013
The big screen's best use of the talents of the sarcastic, ever put-upon Mr. Gervais.
October 24, 2008
Enjoyable as it is to see Gervais trying (and often succeeding) to make something of the mediocre dialogue, it's not enough.
September 28, 2011
Dozens of other movies have romped on the same grass. But Gervais spritzes everything in Ghost Town with a delightfully refreshing comic mist.
September 19, 2008
It's enlivened by the performance of Ricky Gervais as Bertram Pincus, a latter-day Scrooge for whom the living are no less annoying than the dead.
September 06, 2011
The Town isn't as impressive as Affleck's directing debut, 2007's Gone Baby Gone, but he handles the action scenes with brutal efficiency and gets terrific performances from his co-stars.
September 19, 2008
Funny but familiar, Koepp's comedy feels like a multiplex reincarnation -- we've seen this film before and back then we must have stepped on someone's toes
September 24, 2010
Yes, there are gags about mummy penises and canine halitosis, but other sublime moments recall Albert Brooks' social-satire heyday. Given the otherworldly elements, David Koepp's "Ghost Town" sweetly hits the heights of Brooks' "Defending Your Life."
October 21, 2014
One poor soul is buck naked. I don't even want to know how he kicked the bucket.
November 07, 2008
This just kind of fell flat.
