Ghost Town is an upcoming 2008 American fantasy-comedy film directed by David Koepp and starring Ricky Gervais. All post-production work has been finished and it is set to be released on September 19, 2008. It has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for some strong language, sexual humor and drug references.
Plot
A misanthropic dentist (Ricky Gervais) gains the ability to communicate with ghosts after a near death experience in which he dies for seven minutes during a colonoscopy and is then miraculously revived. Ghosts begin to pester him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who wants him to break up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni), putting him in the middle of a supernatural love triangle.
Cast
* Ricky Gervais as Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who gains the ability to communicate with ghosts
* Greg Kinnear as Frank Herlihy, a ghost who befriends Bertram
* Téa Leoni as Gwen, an Egyptologist and Frank's widow
* Billy Campbell as Gwen's love interest, whom Frank warns is a "bad man".
* Alan Ruck as a ghost competing with Frank for Bertram's attention.
* Kristen Wiig as Bertram's self involved surgeon.
