Eric D. Snider  Ghost Town  Movie Review  Ghost Town  by Eric D.
Snider  Grade: B  Released: September 19, 2008   Directed by:
At first you think "Ghost Town" is about this jerk named Frank,
played by supreme jerk-player Greg Kinnear. We meet him as he's
on the phone, chewing out his Realtor for getting his wife mixed
up with his girlfriend. ("Does 'Amber' sound like the wife of a
man my age?!") Next thing you know, he's dead, his spirit stuck
wandering Manhattan, still wearing the tuxedo he had on at the
time of his demise.  But no, "Ghost Town" is actually about a
dentist named Bertram Pincus, though I don't believe anyone in
the movie ever calls him by anything other than his last name.
He's played by Ricky Gervais, whom you know from "The Office"
and "Extras," and Pincus is a variation on those brilliant
characters: snarky, discourteous, and wholly misanthropic, yet
also very funny -- not just to the audience but occasionally
even to the other characters. It turns out he's the kind of
misanthrope who ca