If you have ever felt alienated from the world around you, Ghost World offers laughter, tears, and the assurance that you are certainly not alone. Adapted by Daniel Clowes and Crumb director Terry Zwigoff of Clow acclaimed graphic novel, the film spends the summer with high school graduates Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson). They inflict torture a few residents of sprawl, wielding scathing irony as a defense against a "Ghost World" is full of pop-cultural lemmings and uncertain futures. But when Enid gets a 40-ish vintage record collector (Steve Buscemi) as a measure of its cruel joke later, she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to him ("it is the opposite of everything I completely hate") and is forced to 'face his overwhelming loneliness.
This combination of sarcasm and deeply compassionate humanity makes Ghost World impassive, a rare and delicate comedy, with an ambiguous ending that suggests tragedy or hope, depending on your point of view. - Jeff Shannon
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Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) "sneak into your heart and stay there" (Rolling Stone), in this "mysterious, masterful movie" (Movieline) from the acclaimed director of Crumb. Co-star Brad Renfro (Deuces Wild), Illeana Douglas (Stir of Echos) and Steve Buscemi (Fargo), and "the best role of his career" (Movieline), Ghost World is a "comedy elegantly strange [that] stands like the Taj Mahal "(Time)! While their classmates head for college, Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) focus their energy tormenting those around them - goofy convenience store clerk (Renfro) is a quirky art teacher (Douglas). But when they try crazy loner (Buscemi) looking for Miss Right, their seemingly innocent meddling threatens to crush one of their hearts, not to mention their friendship continues.
This combination of sarcasm and deeply compassionate humanity makes Ghost World impassive, a rare and delicate comedy, with an ambiguous ending that suggests tragedy or hope, depending on your point of view. - Jeff Shannon
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Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) "sneak into your heart and stay there" (Rolling Stone), in this "mysterious, masterful movie" (Movieline) from the acclaimed director of Crumb. Co-star Brad Renfro (Deuces Wild), Illeana Douglas (Stir of Echos) and Steve Buscemi (Fargo), and "the best role of his career" (Movieline), Ghost World is a "comedy elegantly strange [that] stands like the Taj Mahal "(Time)! While their classmates head for college, Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) focus their energy tormenting those around them - goofy convenience store clerk (Renfro) is a quirky art teacher (Douglas). But when they try crazy loner (Buscemi) looking for Miss Right, their seemingly innocent meddling threatens to crush one of their hearts, not to mention their friendship continues.
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