Gallery: Ghost Town

Ricky Gervais effortlessly makes his leading role debut in a spirited rom-com that leaves the opposition for dead. He plays Dr Bertram Pincus, a buttoned-up English dentist working in New York. After dying for seven minutes during an operation he comes to with the ability to see dead people, particularly Greg Kinnear’s sleazy Frank, who wants him to break up the impending re-marriage of his widow (Tea Leoni). Beautifully written and impeccably acted, it cements Gervais’s place in the Hollywood firmament.