Ghost town
If you like Ricky Gervais, you will like this film. I do, and I enjoyed it. If you don't know Ricky give it a try. I was reminded of Julie Depardieu in Female agents. Here is someone cast against type again. Gervais is playing a romantic lead. He is not handsome, or tall. He is an Englishman in New York. There is a nod to Stings song, in a conversation later in the movie
In fact Gervais looks like an annoying co worker of mine.
Gervais is playing a dentist. Who warms to dentists?
A dentist whom goes into surgery, and dies on the table. There is a well done scene of Gervais staring at his laxatives over his crossword puzzles. Here is a lonely middle aged man, living his life quietly, and doesn't want to share in any one else
Aasif Mandvi from Jericho plays Gervais Colleague. Gervais, slips away, rather then talk to him, at a work get together to celebrate the birth of Mandvi's child
Greg Kinear and Tea Leoni, do their jobs well. In this piece. Tea at the start of the movie looks her age, and bonds with Gervais. Over a technical discussion about a diseased mandible
Gervais attempt to chat up Leoni in the lift. Was a classic moment of painful humour.
That what it is. It's the comedy of embarrassment. Its more spiteful in places then a lot of Hollywood. Gervais rarely pulls his punches. If you like to see him spar, go watch this
BTW. I went to see this with my sister. My middle sister, not my older one. Which is a change. Not sure if this matters though :)
In fact Gervais looks like an annoying co worker of mine.
Gervais is playing a dentist. Who warms to dentists?
A dentist whom goes into surgery, and dies on the table. There is a well done scene of Gervais staring at his laxatives over his crossword puzzles. Here is a lonely middle aged man, living his life quietly, and doesn't want to share in any one else
Aasif Mandvi from Jericho plays Gervais Colleague. Gervais, slips away, rather then talk to him, at a work get together to celebrate the birth of Mandvi's child
Greg Kinear and Tea Leoni, do their jobs well. In this piece. Tea at the start of the movie looks her age, and bonds with Gervais. Over a technical discussion about a diseased mandible
Gervais attempt to chat up Leoni in the lift. Was a classic moment of painful humour.
That what it is. It's the comedy of embarrassment. Its more spiteful in places then a lot of Hollywood. Gervais rarely pulls his punches. If you like to see him spar, go watch this
BTW. I went to see this with my sister. My middle sister, not my older one. Which is a change. Not sure if this matters though :)
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