While I can’t remember where I talked about it, I did get a lot of movies from my aunt and uncle at one point in time and will now cover one of them in this blog. You see, since it featured the star of the show Madam Secretary, I might as well cover it in this blog post of mine here.
We begin in New York City. A man on the phone says that he isn’t looking at his apartment when his wife calls him about it. He seems to be caught in a lie. He seems to have been unfaithful to his wife when he gets run over by a bus. He is now dead, a ghost lingering in this world.
We then see a lot of dentist equipment being shown. A dentist, Dr. Bertram Pincus, is with a patient. He then has issues with another dentist, but tells him that he is okay with whatever change is going on. The people walk through ghosts, sneezing when they do. He doesn’t hold the door open for someone despite saying that he would. He then forces down laxatatives in preparation for a surgery. He goes through a lot of questions that he doesn’t want to answer. He feels that most of them aren’t something that he needs to answer in the end.
He feels that there were a bunch of people watching him that could have been a dream. He talks to a nurse who notices that he can see her. The ghosts start to chase him with him realizing that there was something weird about the whole thing. He returns to the hospital and asks if anything unusual happen during the procedure. The surgeon called someone on the phone. A man joins her and Bertram in a part of the hospital where he learns that he died for less than 7 minutes. He is told that everyone dies. He says that it is just the once and forever at the very end. Perhaps Ricky Gervais isn’t familiar with the story of Jesus Christ. Perhaps someone should nicely explain it to him.
Anyways, one of the ghosts here reveals that the blonde woman who lives in the same building as Bertram is his widow. Bertram doesn’t understand that he shouldn’t talk to ghosts when others are around him. He learns more about this man’s problems and other ghost’s problems as well. All of the ghosts are told where he lives. This blonde woman he’s told to help is named Gwen. He likes his job as a dentist as people don’t talk to him as they aren’t able to.
Bertram never noticed Gwen before. He talks to her dead husband as he reveals his plan to be a new man in her life instead of the man that she’s currently dating. Gwen gives a speech about what all is going on with mummies of the past. The ghost doesn’t think that Bertram would be that good a person at first, finding his idea to be funny.
Bertram talks to Gwen saying that he owes her an apology. But he has already messed things up a lot thus far. She doesn’t really like him as much thus far. He might have come off as scary. He is given a lot more advice about her. He talks to Gwen in the elevator and comes off as awkward in a way. He is still given the chance to examine this mummy by her. He has a free time on his schedule.
There are some different things that are investigated regarding the mummy relating to his teeth by Bertram in question. He seems to have some knowledge about what was going on and how tooth issues could have related to his death potentially.
Bertram explains that he moved here from Britian to be with a woman named Sarah. He looks into Gwen’s mouth for a bit in regards to her tooth problem. Other ghosts show up before her fiancé shows up. He gets invited to his place for dinner. It gets awkward when Bertram has to explain away his response to a ghost there.
Things continue to be awkward a lot when the dog is out and things seem weird as a result. Frank, the dead husband of Gwen, is brought up again when Bertram orders his drink without realizing it. Since Frank is around, Bertram wants to go through a list of Frank’s flaws. She reveals that he was unfaithful to her, which she learned the day that he died.
Bertram explains that Sarah traveled a lot and didn’t come back, finding a new man. Gwen was given an offer to map tombs, but won’t because her fiancé Richard is a part of her life. Bertram doesn’t see any of the issues that Richard has. Frank tries to explain the issues, but Bertram doesn’t see any. Frank feels that there has to be some unfinished business going on or he wouldn’t be a ghost. Bertram almost had confessed his ability to see ghosts to Gwen. He also doesn’t want to help Frank anymore.
Back at the dentist office, a woman patient doesn’t say much while there since she isn’t able to when he does a mold of her teeth. Other ghosts show up that Bertram tries to get away from. When he gets back, he gets a walk-in appointment from Richard. Richard doesn’t want to talk about it. Bertram goes to a dentist next door and tries to get information from him about getting out information. He is told to ask nicely. Bertram then figures out what to do.
Frank is told that Gwen and Richard are breaking up. Bertram is told that he should be left alone now. But Frank is still there, thinking that there is more going on there still. Bertram gives Gwen a gift. But he reveals more information than he should know about. With Gwen leaving soon, he reveals what had happened to him with a bongo playing over the repeat information. Gwen is told that there was a recurring nightmare that only Frank knew about. Frank says the wrong thing. Bertram wants to know why Frank had lied. Frank didn’t want a person like Bertram in her life.
Bertram says that he won’t help the ghosts with their problems. A hailstorm comes, causing issues. He stays at the office despite the precense of ghosts there. He talks to his co-worker. It seems that he is feeling upset and wants prescriptions for things. He is told that he needs to stop being a prick. He then decides to finally help all of the ghosts. This leads to the ghosts moving on with lights going off.
After all this happens, Bertram goes to where Gwen is at and talks to her. She doesn’t want this at first. He thinks that the reasons that ghosts stay around is because humans have unfinished business. He tries to tell her a lot of things that Frank says, but things aren’t going well. He talks to her on the street and gets hit by a bus, turning into a ghost for a while. But he isn’t dead this time. Well, maybe he is, but this is not something that lasts this time either.
Bertram wakes up in a hospital and is greeted by the surgeon from earlier. He is alive now. He is given balloons and is welcomed back to where he works. Gwen shows up there and Bertram reveals what the real dream actually was. She wants to get her teeth checked out as it hurts when she smiles. It looks like they might stay together in the end after all. This ends the movie.
I like the movie. That’s obvious or I wouldn’t have seen it again or blogged about it now. Not only do I recommend that people actually watch this movie and not just read this blog post, I also think that you should listen to the entertaining commentary with it after seeing the movie. It is a good movie, although I can’t say much else about the message or other things relating to that. I like the movie and think that you should watch it if you can. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
