Ghost Town (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: David Koepp

Writers: David Koepp, John Kamps

Cinematographer: Fred Murphy

Composer: Geoff Zanelli

Cast: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Bill Campbell, Aasif Mandvi, Kristen Wiig, Michael-Leon Wooley, Dana Ivey

After dying for nearly seven minutes during routine bowel surgery, a curmudgeonly English dentist (an excellent Gervais) begins seeing dead people, who precede to pester him relentlessly for his help in settling their affairs, in this well acted fantasy film, which – as long as it sticks to tickling the funny bone, which it does well – is thoroughly entertaining, but when it attempts to engage other emotions it proves much less effective. Iain.Stott