Monday, May 10, 2010

Ghost town

Fairly good, certainly entertaining film. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist deliberately oblivious of anyone other than himself, to the point of arrogance. Greg Kinnear is an adulterer who is hit by a bus but is not released from the temporal world; his assignment is his wife, played by Téa Leoni, who, again, does good work. It occurred to me afterward that Leoni could handle meatier roles; in the two roles I've seen her, this one and in Fun with Dick and Jane, her role was not as filled out, as substantial, as the male lead

At one point it occurred to me that the film takes its direction from Ghost, with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. It works. I enjoyed it

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