City of Ghosts
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A lobby card for the 2004 Thailand theatrical release.
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| Directed by | Matt Dillon |
| Produced by | Willi Baer Michael Cerenzie Deepak Nayar |
| Written by | Matt Dillon Barry Gifford Mike Jones |
| Starring | Matt Dillon James Caan Stellan Skarsgård Natascha McElhone Gérard Depardieu |
| Music by | Tyler Bates |
| Cinematography | Jim Denault |
| Edited by | Howard E. Smith |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English French Khmer Russian |
| Music from the Motion Picture City of Ghosts | |
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| Soundtrack album by various artists | |
| Released | April 29, 2003 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | Lakeshore Records |
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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.
Jimmy (played by 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.
Eventually, Marvin turns up, but the scam he's trying to get together – involving corrupt Cambodian government officials, high-ranking military and the Russian mafia – turns out to be more risky and dangerous than anyone ever imagined, taking Jimmy on a surrealistic odyssey.
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