Publisher's Synopsis
Screwball fantasy comedy with Ricky Gervais' dentist becoming a go-between for the dead after briefly dying in an operation. Misanthropic dentist Bertram Pincus (Gervais) can't believe his eyes when, after being revived from an operation where he died for seven minutes, he begins seeing ghosts everywhere he looks. Annoyed with this added inconvenience, Bertram finally agrees to help when the dearly departed start asking him to pass on messages to their nearest and dearest. But when Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) badgers him into stopping the wedding of his recent widow Gwen (Tea Leoni), Bertram soon finds himself becoming romantically involved, adding another (spiritual) dimension.
