Saturday
30Aug2008
Trailer - Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People in 'Ghost Town'
Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 10:18PM 
If the details surrounding the cancellation weren't so
strange, it probably wouldn't be the least bit noteworthy that
Téa Leoni is
skipping the Toronto Film Festival next week. However, since her husband,
David Duchovny, just checked himself into rehab
for a sex addiction, she's passing on this year's festival.
She would have been in the Great White North supporting the new comedy
Ghost Town, which stars
Ricky Gervais (in his first leading role in a film) and
Greg Kinnear. It was written and directed by
David Koepp, and you have to go back to Koepp's
underrated Death Becomes Her screenplay to find anything similar on his
filmography. We know him more these days for screenplays to Spider-Man and the
latest Indiana Jones movie, things like that. As a director, he hasn't really
ever had a hit, so maybe this supernatural comedy will be the cure for that.I'm
not sure if Ricky Gervais has totally caught on in the United States, though, so
we'll see.
The movie is about a dentist who dies "a little bit"
during a routine medical procedure. Now that he's back among the living, he can
see dead people, which is so ironic, because he's now in a position to locate
Haley Joel Osment's career.
Here's the trailer, which has a few snarky Gervais
one-liners, but other than that, it doesn't look thoroughly enriching.
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