Ghost Town

As Rom-Coms go, you could not ask for a better cast than this. The incredibly talented and funny Rickie Gervais, here in a role that suits him down to the ground. He plays Bertram Pincus, a dentist who, to put it mildly, is not a people person. He sneaks out of the office rather than join in the birthday celebrations of his partner. Could there be a more unlikely romantic interest for the terminally cute Tea Leoni? She is always a delight to watch. The story is not terribly original and relies heavily on the now well established routine of someone who can see and communicate with dead people, while the rest of us can’t. The outcome is pretty much predictable from the get-go, but this is of no concern. The characters make this enjoyable. I thought that there wee some comedic opportunities lost in exploiting Pincus’s bizarre condition. So there are not that many big laughs, but overall it is consistently amusing.