City of Ghosts Movie Review 2003

Dillon makes his directorial debut (as well as starring and co-writing the screenplay) with this overly-ambitious effort. Jimmy Creemins (Dillon) works for a shady New York insurance agency. His boss (and Jimmy's mentor), Marvin (Caan), has cleaned out the firm's offshore accounts and the feds think Jimmy was in on the scam. Jimmy discovers Marvin is holed up in Phnom Penh and he heads to Cambodia to join him at the Belleville Hotel, the usual sort of seedy Euro-dive, which is run by Frenchman Emile (Depardieu). Soon Jimmy is caught up in further unsavory activities, with various unsavory characters, a damsel-in-distress (McElhone), and more sideline plots.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Asia, Grand Hotel, Scams, Stings & Cons, Bad Bosses, Insurance, Nightclubs, New York, New York, FBI, Drug Use & Abuse, Ethics & Morals, Mistaken Identity, Culture Clash, Cambodia

Screenplay

Matt Dillon, Barry Gifford

Cast

Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha (Natasha) McElhone, Gerard Depardieu, Sereyvuth Kem, Chalee Sankhavesa, Stellan Skarsgard, Rose Byrne, Christopher Curry, Shawn Andrews

Cinematography

Jim Denault

Director

Matt Dillon

Music

Tyler Bates

Other

Marc Fishman, Joe Barnett, Dondi Bastone, Howard E. Smith, Lek Chaiyan, Moji Sangi, David Brisbin

Producer

Willi Baer, Michael Cerenzie, Deepak Nayor, United Artists, Kintop Pictures, Mainline Productions, Banyan Tree, MGM