Ghost Town: The Movie (2007)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Directors:

Jeff Kennedy
Dean Teaster

Writers:

DJ Perry (screenplay)
DJ Perry (story)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

A story of love, murder and moonshine

Plot:

Dean Teaster's GHOST TOWN "The Movie", is a unique "Eastern" Western. It is N.C. native Dean Teaster's...

Plot Keywords:

Ghost Town | Western U.S. | Burt Reynolds | Maggie Valley | Great Smoky Mountains

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward	...	Harmon Teaster
Bill McKinney	...	Victor Burnett
DJ Perry	...	Will Burnett
Princess Lucaj	...	Violet Teaster
Rance Howard	...	Sheriff Tom Parker
Renée O'Connor	...	Little Jack
Tony Becker	...	Deputy Tuck
Stella Parton	...	Betsy Mae
Terence Knox	...	Mayor Emerson Rogers
Sammy Kershaw	...	Marshall Morgan Duckett
Charles Edwin Powell	...	Young Victor Burnett
Terry Jernigan	...	Young Harmon Teaster
Charles Matthau	...	Doc Morrison
Dean Teaster	...	Digger (as Dean West)
Anthony Hornus	...	Captain Ketner

Also Known As:

Dean Teaster's Ghost Town (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some western violence.

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (hd) | Color

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Canton, North Carolina, USA

Company:

Collective Development

Trivia:

Owner RB Coburn built Ghost Town in 1961, and immediately build Frontierland in Cherokee, North Carolina and Six Gun Territory in Ocala Florida the following year. He had three theme parks operational within 2 years.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Behind the Scenes of 'Ghost Town: The Movie' (2008) (V)

good parts-poorly assembled

After checking out the previous comments I see that I am not alone in my views of this movie. On the first watching I was confused and disappointed. So after watching it a second time I took some time and tried to figure out what was wrong. The comments here only helped to confirm my conclusions. Have you ever bought a plastic model of a car, opened the box and visualized what it would look like completed? Now imagine giving that model to a five year old and let them put it together unsupervised. When it's done you will have a fairly good idea what Ghost Town looks like. Each scene seemed to have all of the basic requirements to create tension, build the story, and advance the character arc. I could see all of the individual small parts just like looking at a plastic model straight out of the box. And just like that model I could envision the final product fully assembled. But for Ghost Town that is where everything falls apart. You can "see" the whole story, which is not overly complicated or deep. But it looks like it was assembled by a five year old. That creates a great deal of frustration on the part of the viewer. It is one thing to watch a bad movie. It is quite another to watch what appears to be a good movie put together with little understanding of plot, timing, or character development. Watching each scene you can "feel" where it is supposed to go, but each time the editing sends it way off track. Like a previous comment I suggest that you never let the editor near another movie again. At least not until he goers back to school and learns how a movie should be assembled. Otherwise you end up with a plastic model that doesn't quite match the box cover art!