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About
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
Theatrical
Sep 19, 2008
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 27, 2008
Box Office
$27.1M
Budget
$20.0M
Return
1.4x
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Spyglass Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Pariah
Keywords
new york city
life and death
adultery
bus
egypt
winter
museum
surgeon
dying and death
widow
anti-social
lawyer
hospital
spirit
patient
doorman
dentist
exhibition
dead man
lecture
great dane
anthropologist
talking to the dead
manhattan, new york city
death of husband
dramedy
mummified bodies
unresolved issues
bar
unlikely romance
misanthrope
self-centered
human rights lawyer
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Cast
Full credits →R
Ricky Gervais
Dr. Bertram Pincus
Greg Kinnear
Frank Herlihy
T
Téa Leoni
Gwen Herlihy
B
Billy Campbell
Richard
A
Aasif Mandvi
Dr. Jahangir Prashar
D
Dana Ivey
Marjorie Pickthall
Kristen Wiig
Surgeon
M
Michael-Leon Wooley
Hospital Lawyer
A
Alan Ruck
Ghost Dad
J
Jordan Carlos
Young Husband
D
DeQuina Moore
Young Wife
J
Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Accident Bystander #1
B
Brian Hutchison
Accident Bystander #2
T
Tyree Michael Simpson
Sneezy Cop
J
Julia K. Murney
Sneezy Lady
C
Claire Lautier
Upper East Side Lady
B
Bridget Moloney
Receptionist
R
Raymond J. Lee
Greenpeace Guy
J
Joey Mazzarino
Food Delivery Guy
B
Brad Oscar
Day Doorman
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