Taglines: where you go when you can’t turn back.
Jimmy (Matt Dillon) is a conman who’s been working for a fake insurance company in New York City that is being investigated by the FBI after it cannot pay claims that have poured in after a hurricane. Discovering that his mentor and the mastermind of the scheme, Marvin (James Caan), has skipped the country and gone to Thailand, Jimmy boards a plane with the intention of trying to collect his money.
Once in Bangkok, Jimmy meets Joseph Kaspar (Skarsgård), a partner in the scheme who’s living with his Thai katoey companion Rocky (Kyoza). Joseph informs Jimmy that Marvin has moved on to Cambodia, where he’s planning an even greater scam. So Jimmy sneaks across the border and makes his way to Phnom Penh.
He checks into a seedy hotel run by a Frenchman named Emile (Gérard Depardieu) and has his passport stolen by another traveller. Later Jimmy has his sunglasses stolen by a macaque monkey. Needing to travel around, he hires a cyclo driver named Sok (Kem Sereyvuth), who becomes the only person Jimmy can trust. He also meets an NGO worker named Sophie (Natascha McElhone) and dabbles in romance with her while attending a rave party at an ancient temple.
City of Ghosts is a 2002 drama film co-written, directed by and starring Matt Dillon, about a con artist who must go to Cambodia to collect his share of money from an insurance scam. The film was made in Cambodia, in locations that include Phnom Penh and the Bokor Hill Station.
City of Ghosts (2003)
Directed by: Matt Dillon
Starring: Matt Dillon, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu, Kem Sereyvuth, Rose Byrne, Shawn Andrews, Chalee Sankhavesa
Screenplay by: Matt Dillon, Barry Gifford, Mike Jones
Production Design by: David Brisbin
Cinematography by: Jim Denault
Film Editing by: Howard E. Smith
Costume Design by: Moji Sangi
Set Decoration by: William A. Cimino
Art Direction by: Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat
Music by: Tyler Bates
MPAA Rating: R for language and some violence.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: April 25, 2003
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