People are voting emotionally.

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This was so worth watching. It had a few funny moments but the message is really heartwarming. I've seen a few comments that were negative but I can't see why they felt as they did. Ricky Gervais was the right choice for this. He has a unique way of bringing an awkwardness to his characters that is funny because it feels so sincere. I think that everyone can relate to this in some way or another. We all know people who are closed off to others. Some are angry, annoyed, lonely and I think a large majority of them are really just scared of give to much of themselves to someone who may just walk away. It is the Fight or Flight nature. You can fear the wounds that come along with trying to find those who are meant to be in your life by closing yourself off or you can brave the wounds and have those people walk through life with you.

Quaint, sweet, funny feel-good romantic comedy. Quite funny, especially pretty much every time Ricky Gervais opens his mouth! The romance-drama side, often the area that wrecks romantic comedies, is also good: sensitive, but not lame or too soppy.Reasonably innovative central plot, though it wears a bit thin towards the third quarter. Not surprisingly, this is where the plot seemed to drift a bit. Ending was unpredictable, and nice, though.Ricky Gervais is superb in the lead role and Tea Leoni shines. Even Greg Kinnear does OK and manages to not wreck the movie. Good to see Aasif Mandvi, one of the many talented Jon Stewart sidekicks on The Daily Show, get a major role, and do a good job.

In Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus a rude, arrogant and unsympathetic dentist who has a near death experience in hospital.As he was medically dead for seven minutes he has the ability to see dead people. One of them being Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who was killed in an accident at the beginning of the film and wants Pincus to stop his widow marrying a human rights lawyer who he thinks is the wrong man for her.Pincus agrees in exchange that Herlihy would leave him alone but discovers the lawyer is a good man and falls for the widow himself but his selfishness backfires on him and his fellow dentist advises him that life would be better if he thought about others and helped people.Gervais has cultivated a persona of the Basil Fawlty kind and here he is making sure that he does not overstretch himself. He plays grouchy very well leaving Tea Leoni, Greg Kinnear and others to be moving and emotional.The film is a cross between Groundhog Day and The Sixth Sense, its not bad, easy going but is nothing more than a time waster.

We saw this movie with my family and thought we were going to crack up. But no, despite the feel-good touch to it, the movie is slow at times and a little dry. Ricky Gervais plays a dentist who is a 'prick', does not like people in general and goes out of his way to avoid them. He undergoes a colonoscopy and is clinically dead for seven minutes, which gives him a gift - he sees and talks to dead people. Ha! His worst nightmare! The dead ones who need him to help set them free then seek him. Frank (Greg Kinnear), asks him to help intervene in a romance between his widow and her new fiancé. At first reluctant to take on the responsibility, he ends up agreeing. And along the way a number of discoveries will surface. I did not think that Ricky Gervais gave his best. But, go see it for yourself. After all it is a feel- good movie.