Movie: GHOST TOWN
2008, Directed by David Koepp
Poster tagline: “He sees dead people. And they annoy him.” Ricky Gervais played his character well, a droll, finicky dentist who temporarily dies during a colonoscopy, gaining the power to interact with the deceased. As a fellow introvert, I found this to be a charming little movie that deserved a bigger audience, even if it did fall into the tired resolution of “unpleasant person has to help semi-dead people move on, and in the process learns something about himself”. Unfortunately, GHOST TOWN got lost in the morass of “quirky” films too big for art theaters, but too small for the multiplexes. Worth a rental or catching on cable.
