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Ghost Town [DVD]
	Director: David Koepp Actors: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Aasif Mandvi, Tea Leoni Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £4.00 as of 15/3/2010 05:03 UTC details You Save: £15.99 (80%) New (27) Used (23) Collectible (1) from £1.74 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 56 reviews Sales Rank: 927 Format: PAL Languages: English (Audio Description), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 98 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5051188156732 ASIN: B001IZZ2SG Release Date: January 1, 2008 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Ricky Gervais is brilliant in Ghost Town, playing an unnervingly rude dentist, Bertram, who dies for a few minutes during surgery and acquires the unwanted ability to see ghosts. Chased throughout Manhattan by a gaggle of restless spirits begging him to take care of their unfinished business on Earth, Bertram turns them all away except Frank (Greg Kinnear). The latter, a rogue who cheated on his archaeologist widow, Gwen (Téa Leoni), wants Bertram to intervene in a romance between Gwen and a starchy activist (Bill Campbell). Misanthropic Bertram has to polish his relationship patter, but ends up sounding a lot like Gervais' infamous character in the original The Office, unable to complete a sentence without making others uncomfortable. In time, of course, Bertram falls for the wonderful Gwen, setting up a bunch of overlapping conflicts. Cowritten and directed by David Koepp (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), Ghost Town walks a fine line between comic freshness and a story idea with elements that have become overly familiar in movies and on television. Kinnear and Leoni have never been better on screen, but Ghost Town is well worth seeing because no one like Gervais has previously played the hapless hero in a high-concept film such as this one. With Gervais doing his familiar, hilariously discomfiting thing, it really doesn't matter what kind of movie Ghost Town is. Happily, it's a pretty good film in every respect. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next » Oi Gervais no! February 19, 2010 Dan (UK) No Gervais no! What were you thinking? We have a very pleasant, pretty and warm comedy romance that meanders along happily. Every now and then there is a hint that they might try some edgy or quirky or laugh out loud comedy...but they don't. Is Gervais in this because Stiller,Sandler and Black turned it down for being too average a script?? The films suits Greg Kinnear though. It's about his comedic level. That is it really, it's not a pile of pants, just pleasant, and picking it up because it had Gervais in just made it a little disappointing. Only Floss The Teeth That You Want To Keep. December 4, 2009 A. Mckellar (Wokingham, Berkshire) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is one of those films that looked really good on the adverts and while I had a little trepidation about watching it, I decided to go into it with an open mind. My main concern was whether a comedy about a Dentist who could interact with dead people would work and particularly as Gervais was taking the lead role. Despite my slight concerns I can honestly say that I really enjoyed the film and as romantic dead comedies go it was particularly funny. It's a slightly different type of movie to the usual films from director David Koepp with his previous films including Secret Window and Stir of Echoes. He has put this film together particularly well and the special effects are really well done. In particular the sneeze as someone walks through one of the ghosts is a very clever concept. He uses some very clever camera work and creates some very amusing scenes. His direction and use of the lighting and sound work particularly well and I was very impressed with the finished article. With Koepp also taking on part of the script writing with John Camps it meant that the script and direction stayed true to the original vision. The plot travels at a reasonable pace and while it doesn't follow quite the regular path you would expect it works as something slightly different. The character of Pincus is very well written and you really get a good feel for how he is and as the films progress and you find out more about him you start to understand his hatred of pretty much anyone. The role of Pincus is portrayed particularly well by Ricky Gervais in his first lead role in a Hollywood movie. He adapts to the part particularly well and this dispelled one of my earlier worries. I was expecting to see just another version of the Office's David Brent but thankfully Gervais did something a little different with Pincus and it worked very well. You want to hate him because of his attitude to everyone, but as you learn more about him and he comes out of his shell you grow to like him. I feel I should warn you though if you're not a fan of Gervais and his humour this isn't a film for you. While the film really appears to be a vehicle to launch Gervais in America there are also a couple of good performances from his supporting cast. In particular Greg Kinnear's performance as the dead cheating husband Frank is particularly enjoyable. He plays the character well and while you find yourself won over by Gervais you love to hate Frank throughout. The other notable performance is from Tea Leoni who plays Frank's ex wife particularly well. There is some great chemistry between her and Gervais and i really felt that added a bit of conviction to their performances. Overall I have to say that whilst I did have my concerns before sitting down to watch it, they were quickly dismissed. This is an enjoyable comedy film that plays on an old style of story and gives it a nice new twist. The soundtrack adds some real feeling to the movie and as well as countless funny moments there are some rather serious scene that Gervais in particular pulls of very well. If you're not a fan of Ricky Gervais this really isn't for you, otherwise it s a film that will make you laugh and if nothing else will pass 102 minutes of an evening without any problem at all. Well----- I enjoyed it but December 1, 2009 K. A. Newton (North West England) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful I am not especially a great fan of Gervais but as a Spiritualist was interested in the plot and that is why I bought the film. I just wish the word Ghost was not used when Spirit is more seemly. Gervais as an ordinary man, a dentist and a pretty depressing personality discovers after a close call with death during minor surgery that he himself is identified by "spirits" as a medium. He can see them, hear them and being of this side of the veil can pass messages on. I rarely SEE spirit but the thought of any entering my consciousness willy nilly would feel totally invasive. Gervais handled this role well but I felt did not show his anger enough at the mass invasion of his life. I thought it a pretty bland movie but worth the price I paid for it. "I don't want to smell your fake tan!" November 21, 2009 Matthew Patton (Deltona, Florida) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais) is a dentist. And as long as he concentrates on your teeth, he's just fine. Try to talk to him, though, and he will either mumble some sort of sarcastic response or shove a wad of cotton in your mouth. It works for him. But after he goes in for a colonoscopy and demands general anesthesia ("I don't want to be there when they go where they're going."), he suddenly finds himself surrounded by people who not only won't shut up, but CAN'T be shut up. Ghosts. Pushy, anxious New York ghosts. This winds him up no end. That and the fact that he signed a quitclaim form relieving his surgeon, his anesthesiologist, St. Vincent's Hospital, and Institutional Medical Care Partners of all responsibility for his anesthesia-induced cessation of heart function. But only for seven minutes. A little less. ("I dotted the 'i' with a little love heart!" "You were happy to be alive!") The most insistent of these new companions is Frank Herlihy (Gregg Kinnear), who got hit while a bus while trying to juggle his wife and mistress while gabbing on his Blackberry-bush-cell-phone-thingy (serves him right--if only for the cell-phone-thingy). Frank's widow Gwen (Tea Leoni) is about to marry a lawyer (Billy Campbell) who Frank doesn't like--because. Offering to get the other anxious spirits off of Pincus' back, he persuades our favorite misanthrope to break the couple up. And after an ordeal that involves mummies with severe dental problems, malodorous Great Danes, and his own dysfunctional heart, Pincus succeeds. Too well. Ricky Gervais yet again demonstrates his uncanny knack for playing people you wouldn't want to get stuck in an elevator with, and making them explicable, even sympathetic. He's willing to be utterly loathsome in the early going--affectless, sullen, full of passive-aggressive rage. And he mines rich comedy from watching this nasty little man being put through the wringer by his fellow travelers, most of them kind, decent people just trying to fix the loose ends of the lives they left behind. But towards the end of the film, when Pincus has re-joined the human race, he quietly breaks your heart. Kinnear is similarly impressive as Frank. Something of an amoral hustler in life, and still a control freak in death, the character could be utterly loathsome, but Kinnear has charm and comic timing to spare, and he gets you to almost like this lug. Almost (part of the attraction, of course, is his ability to make Pincus' life hell). And like Gervias, he makes the shift from funny to serious without any noticeable grinding of gears. Also, he wears one of the great tuxedos in movie history. Tea Leoni seems finally to be coming into her own. It's been obvious for years that she was one of the most charming and skilled actresses about, but she almost never got material worthy of her. This began to change when she starred in the remake of FUN WITH DICK AND JANE--the rare remake that actually surpassed the original (it happens). This film not only gives her several great moments of comedy (Gwen's ill-attended lecture on the mummy, where she makes a number of embarrassing stumbles, the whole scene involving the - ahem- organ in the jar, a brilliant bit of slapstick involving her Great Dane, Leonard). But there is also the scene where she talks about discovering her husband's disloyalty--on the day that he died. Very simple, no fireworks. You'll find it hard to swallow the lump in your throat. The film was co-written and directed by David Koepp, who directed the excellent supernatural thriller STIR OF ECHOES, wrote the great script for CARLITO'S WAY, and has, strangely enough, also helped keep such unworthy creatures as Tom Cruise and Tobey Maguire in work for almost a decade with scripts for the (too)numerous MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and SPIDER-MAN movies. He wrote funny and sweet, and directs unfussily. Special effects are kept to a minimum, and obviously he helped shape the wonderful performances of his stars (the supporting cast is nothing to sneeze at either, particularly Dana Ivey and Alan Ruck as ghosts trying to heal familial wounds). There's also beautiful photography by Fred Murphy and a charming score by Geoff Zanelli, which winds gracefully around a small collection of pop songs. Songs that seem to have been chosen to set the mood of the scene, not to demonstrate how hip the contents of the director's i-pod is . . . Ghost Town Review November 13, 2009 Martin Lawrence (Christchurch New Zealand) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful I live in NZ and couldn't get this film so on the advise of my brother in law I logged onto Amazon and had them send it to me. The film took about 10 days to arrive which was pretty amazing in itself and the film was all that we hoped. We really enjoyed it, as have our Kiwi friends. The film and service were great. Showing reviews 1-5 of 56 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...12 Next »

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