Ghost Town

Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning Bertram Pincus, a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine medical procedure. When the dearly departed begin requesting favors from Dr. Pincus, the ...more

Early on in Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais' Bertram Pincus, DDS asks, "Sorry, you bloody idiots, but can we talk about my bowels?" The ludicrous question spurs the entire film's plot, as it's a fickle stomach that turns Pincus' life upside down. After insisting on getting anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, the incorrigible, prideful, and brash Pincus dies for seven minutes. Upon waking up—after a hilarious exchange with his deadpan surgeon—he realizes something is wrong. There are dead people ...more

During one pivotal moment of revelation in David Koepp's Ghost Town, dentist and insufferable prick Bertram Pincus (brilliantly played by Ricky Gervais) gazes at a poster of Albert Einstein with the quote, "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." And, though Pincus cynically dismisses the quote for its inauspicious placement on a novelty poster, it becomes immediately apparent to the viewer watching the film that Ghost Town is, in fact, the feature-length incarnation of one of those ...more