Frank just accidentally let his wife know that he cheats her with his gymnast when his estate agent called her about the apartment he bought for his girlfriend. And just that second Frank gets run over by a bus. Shit happens. What also happens is the dentist Bertrand Pincus, the ultimate asshole who hates all his clients and basically every human being that ever tried makingcontact with him. He goes to the hospital for some small surgery and when he is released he sees people and for the worst – they are talking to him and asking him for favors! Well actually what he sees are the ghosts of the street of Manhattan who got unfinished business with their former loved ones and he is the first to be a link between them and the living in a long time. So he has to
help them or does he.
Frank is the most bothering of them and jumps on Pincus right away with the “small favor” of getting his former wife away from the suspicious new boyfriend of hers she is in love with. Not that he had much of a reason, he just thinks that is what he has to do. And Pincus – accepts doing him this favor under the condition that after this one they all leave him alone and he can go on quietly hating everything living.
Greg Kinnear and Ricky Gervais make such a great “couple” in this movie and Gervais is once again so … himself! Seriously – every time I see Ricky Gervais pissing of people I think to myself “man, you gotta learn from this guy!”.
There's nothing really bad to say about this movie. Good set up, funny as hell, great actors, a Gervais on his best and even a good soundtrack. It's one of these movies you gotta love, for real. It must be such a boring review to you ending with that critic, but well: Face it, we got a really good movie here!
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