Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
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sah reviewed Ghost Town (2008)
Ghost Town
More ad-libbing Gervais would have helped the movie; but it was funny enough; Greg Kinnear, Tea Leoni, and the soft-spoken woman from SNL were all good in it--more or less a about a mean guy that finds a heart