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Just a quick review for a quick and fun movie: Ghost Town. The movie starts off with Greg Kinnear's death. That's no spoiler. He dies and has unfinished business with the wife he left behind. As it turns out, there are tons of ghosts walking around with unfinished business, and when dentist Bertram Pincus wakes up after having been dead for several minutes in the middle of a routine medical procedure, he is exposed to that world. Now that he's died, he can see others who have died, and all of the dead people follow him around trying to get him to help them with their unfinished business since he can communicate with both the living and the dead.

Greg Kinnear strikes up a relationship with Bertram and wants to find out more about his wife Gwen, and as Bertram helps him, he starts to fall in love with her (she's played by Tea Leoni). The thing about Bertram is that he doesn't like people. He has a profession in which he doesn't have to interact with people because he can jam tools in their mouths and obstruct their efforts to talk to him. He doesn't hold doors or elevators open for anyone, and seems to enjoy his solitude.

I love the introductory scenes between Bertram and Gwen. It's an art of Ricky Gervais to murmur the most hilarious jokes quietly, and its his comments about a mummy she's working on at the museum and the racial jokes he makes when her boyfriend is out of the room that made me laugh out loud even while watching a rental on a tiny screen while lying on the floor of my cubicle. He is hilarious. And Tea Leoni has a great chemistry with him too. I think she's an underrated actor and wish she were out there more often in significant movies.

This was a sleeper of a movie, but was fun. It's not flashy and not necessarily something I'd say that you'll be missing out on if you don't see it, but if you do see it, you will probably enjoy it. And if you like watching Ricky Gervais do what he does best, then you'll love him as Dr. Bertram Pincus.