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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 13639
Released: September 7, 2004 |
| Our Price: $3.00 |
| Used Price: $2.72 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Betrayal, lust and greed are the main ingredients of this "stylish" (Films and Filming) and "fascinating" (Monthly Film Bulletin) supernatural thriller starring OscarÂ(r) winner* Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), Virginia Madsen (Ghosts of Mississippi) and Colin Bruce (Chariots of Fire). Down-on-his-luck P.I. Eddie Mallard (Jones) eagerly accepts money from millionaire Charlie Rand (Bruce) to make Rand's socialite wife Rachel (Madsen) leave him alone. There's just one small problem'the woman has been dead for ten years. When Eddie encounters Rachel's glamorous ghost, he is immediately seduced by her otherworldly charms and becomes embroiled in a dangerous love affair with only one logical way out! *1993: Supporting Actor, The Fugitive
Gotham Reviews:
Noir Ghost Story With Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen--Great Duo! 
2009-09-25 - Virginia Madsen always is at her best when she is a saucy vixen. She is a vixen, driven ghost here and she is perfect as one. (See her in the HOT SPOT for another great vixen role). When Tommy Lee Jones is hired to keep her away from her ex, he has met his match, not the reverse! She's mad as hell that her jewels are missing plus carries a whole laundry list of other sins against her which she is back to square once and for all. The atmosphere is as tantalizing as its stars with shadowy, noirish, baroqueness. I don't know why these two were never paired together again. They had great onscreen chemistry. It was originally made for cable when it probably should have been released theatrically. It was that good.
PI + Sexy Ghost(?) = Hot time in the City 
2009-05-17 - Cash-strapped private detective Tommy Lee Jones is hired by a client who claims he is being haunted by the ghost of his dead wife (Virginia Madsen). Which will he choose--solving the mystery or getting the girl? Some torrid romance and engaging plot twists make this flick a fun ride. A surprise scene with a homeless guy is one of my all time favorites; this scene alone is worth the price of a ticket. R with some nudity. Tommy Lee always delivers and Virginia Madsen is at her hottest. Stylish and steamy, check this one out!
Tommy Leee doesn't have a: "Ghost Of A Chance!" Or does he??
2009-02-05 - What a: "Diamond in the rough" this little film is!!
Can't Believe i actually found it @ amazon marketplace AND BRAND SPANKING NEW!!! NO film Noir fan's library IS COMPLETE without this ONE!!
I won't *spoil* .. like other writers... where's The Point in seeing it then?? Its Got A young(er) Tommy Lee, Virginia Madsen playing The femme fatal & showing-Off her amazing cleavage at EVERY Opportunity!! ALL this & a "Twist" to The Usual Noir plot-line... "REMARKABLE!" "UNBELIEVEABLE!!" .. They Sure don't Make films like these anymore.. and its OUT LOSS!! But for THE PRICE I PAID YOU CAN: "GET it NOW!!" before its GONE!
You don't like it i'll BUY it back from YOU and give to a/another worthy film Buff... with amazing lines like: "Beer.. mayonnaise??" as Tommy Lee has his faithful pal over to his dingy little Private EYE pad...
"YOU CANNOT LOSE!" .. So WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??
I USUALLY GO FOR THIS TYPE OF FILM, BUT WHAT HAPPENED HERE? 
2009-01-12 - Concidering that I really love a good noir, or neo-noir perhaps going in I was expecting too much. Although having a stylish look and feel, and the music fit the mood, I like both Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen in several other films they done, however this film just didn't do it for me. The acting was streatched to disbelief probably overcompensating for the Swiss Cheese of a plot. This was by far NO Chinatown or L.A. Confidential. Two stars is more than generous.
Was it the writer or the director? 
2008-11-11 - Actors: 5 Stars
"Eddie": No actor could play the private investigator in Gotham better than Tommy Lee Jones.
"Rachel": The ghost in Gotham was required to be "glamorous" and "seductive"; Virginia Madsen surpassed those requirements.
If you enjoy these actors, then you'll enjoy Gotham.
There was a recurring distraction for me while watching Gotham. Time and again the charms of the actors drew me in, but something kept breaking their hold over my concentration. I was unable to identify the distraction during the film, except I narrowed it down to either the writer or the director (not something an audience wants to debate while viewing a film).
After the movie ended, I read the back cover on the DVD box: "Written and Directed by Lloyd Fonvielle."
That narrowed down the distraction for me.
The writer, Lloyd Fonvielle, offered an intriguing story-concept - to be haunted by a sexually erotic and potentially heart-breaking ghost; but all in all, his script seemed too heavily influenced by a Saturday morning cartoon - by "Casper," perhaps.
The director, Lloyd Fonvielle, was ADD - filming comedy, then suspense, then a thriller, back to comedy (this may not be the exact chronology...). As a result, the director gave us a remarkably clear view of no momentum.
The next time I watch Gotham (to enjoy the actors) I will supply my own imagination to improve the script and the direction.
