introduction:City of Ghosts is a 2002 drama film co-written, directed by and starring Matt Dillon about a con who must go to Cambodia to collect his share in money collected from an insurance scam. The film was made in Cambodia, in ********s that include Phnom Penh and the Bokor Hill Station artist
plot Jimmy (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 (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 (Skarsgard), 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 (Depardieu) and has his passport stolen by another traveller. Later Jimmy has his sunglasses stolen by a macaque.
Needing to travel around, he hires a cyclo driver named Sok (Sereyvuth), who becomes the only person Jimmy can trust. He also meets an NGO worker named Sophie (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 surreal odyssey.
casting
Matt Dillon as Jimmy
James Caan as Marvin
Natascha McElhone as Sophie
Gérard Depardieu as Emile
Kem Sereyvuth as Sok
Stellan Skarsgard as Joseph Kaspar
Rose Byrne as Sabrina
Kyoza as Rocky
Loto as Red Tuxedo Man
Robert Campbell as Simon
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