Product reviewsGhost Town DVD 2008 - Paramount Home Entertainment - Good - DVD

Charming mood flick, if you like Rick.

An excellent film that reminds me very much of the romantic comedies that Hollywood used to produce in abundance. It wouldn't take too much to imagine Cary Grant playing the lead role. Ricky Gervais plays the role well, but it all boils down to whether you like this marmite actor or not.I do! Greg Kinnear is an excellent support and Tea Leone provides the love interest. A simple storyline but charming. Excellent choice of songs provide a soundtrack that enhances the appeal. Notable for the use of the Beatle track, 'I'm Looking Through You'.Read full review...

Ghost Town

Brilliant film loved every minute of it

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brilliant film

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Dvd

Absolutely brilliant movie definitely recommend this movie

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Badly scratched

I didn't watch this until recently and was very disappointed to find it unplayable, I don't have the original order any more.

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Loved the film and a good price

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Very happy with my purchase

Very happy with my purchase

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magnificent!

Fantastic film funny, witty and thought povoking. Ricky Gervais is excellent. Would really recommend watching the film.

Ghost Town (DVD)

Co-written and directed by David Koepp, Ghost Town is one of those romantic comedies that do their best not to look and sound like a romantic comedy. It offers no kisses, no declarations of love. It’s set in a New York that lacks an autumnal glow or the sounds of Sinatra to get us in the mood. Yet, while the movie avoids the feelgood soppiness one finds in contemporary romcoms, it doesn’t go in for downbeat cynicism, either. This is a light comedy full of dark people.

None is darker than Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a lonely, rude and misanthropic dentist. Pincus is happiest when he has stuffed his patients’ mouths with cotton wool so they can’t speak. When he goes into hospital for a colonoscopy, he dies — but only for seven minutes. On returning to life, he finds he can see ghosts, and they can see him. These are needy ghosts who want Pincus to run errands and take messages to loved ones who are still alive.

The joke is that Bertram has no time for the living, much less the dead. One of the most persistent ghosts is the recently deceased Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), a smooth-talking philanderer in a tight tuxedo. He offers Bertram a deal: break up the relationship between his wife, Gwen (Téa Leoni), and her fiancé, Richard (Bill Campbell), and he will get the other ghosts off Pincus’s back.

While Gervais is not your traditional leading man, he gives a fine performance. Koepp and his co-writer, John Kamps, understand that he is not a comic based on punch lines, but a master of the comedy of embarrassment. Yet this role requires something more low-key and repressed. Gervais doesn’t make us squirm, just smile. In the film’s quieter moments, he exhibits the melancholic, hangdog expression of a young Hancock. Overall, Ghost Town is never quite as funny as it needs to be. After all, here is a film in which nobody likes each other. We don’t even like the two leads: Pincus is awful and the conniving Frank is worse. The only warmth comes from Leoni, who has that rare mix of beauty and on-screen likeability. The film may not end in a kiss, but, alas, it does end in a pat, life-affirming lesson about the need for love. It’s a modest but enjoyable effort; with a bit more guts or something to say, though, it could have been a small gem.Read full review...

GReat!

Starring - Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Alan Ruck, Toa Leoni, Jeff Hiller.
Director - David Koepp
This is wonderful comedy in which Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen.Read full review...