Ghost World (Dol)
by Terry Zwigoff
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Actor: Thora Birch; Scarlett Johansson; Steve Buscemi; Brad Renfro; Illeana DouglasDirector: Terry Zwigoff
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 111 minutes
Release Date: 2002-08-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Movie Reviews of Ghost World (Dol)
Movie Review: Wonderful film, intelligent, surprisingly compassionate, and humanistic...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great, great movie. It could have easily gone off into another variation of the typical indie film. Instead of being smug and overly quirky like many indie films can be, this film is genuine, intelligent, and humanistic as well. I atttribute this to the director, Terry Zwigoff, who directed one of my favorite documentaries, Crumb, and the two excellent leads, Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch. Buscemi here is especially good, playing a character that could have easily turned into a caricature with a lesser director and actor. Buscemi plays a lonely 42 year old bachelor who lives with an astonishing record collection. Some may have portrayed him with snark and made him look like a loser, but Buscemi and Zwigoff give him humanity and soul, and it makes for one of Buscemi's greatest performances. He's really underrated as an actor. Birch is excellent, too, as the sarcastic, yet human girl who takes a liking to Buscemi. Again, their romance feels real, and she seems to genuinely like him, despite the differences in age. It's not forced, sleazy, and it's not done for the sake of being quirky. This is one of the best indie films I've ever seen.
Summary of Ghost World (Dol)
Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) "sneak into your heart and stay there" (Rolling Stone) in this "eerie, masterful movie" (Movieline) from the acclaimed director of Crumb. Co-starring Brad Renfro (Deuces Wild), Illeana Douglas (Stir of Echos) and Steve Buscemi (Fargo) in "the best role of his career" (Movieline), Ghost World is a "smartly strange comedy [that] stands out like the Taj Mahal" (Time)! While their classmates head for college, Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) focus their energies on tormenting those around them - from a goofy convenience store clerk (Renfro) to an eccentric art teacher (Douglas). But when they zero in on an oddball loner (Buscemi) looking for Miss Right, their seemingly innocent meddling threatens to shatter one of their hearts not to mention their lifelong friendship.If you've ever felt alienated by the world around you, Ghost World will offer laughter, tears, and reassurance that you are definitely not alone. Adapted by Daniel Clowes and Crumb director Terry Zwigoff from Clowes's acclaimed graphic novel, the movie spends summer vacation with high school graduates Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlet Johansson). They inflict little tortures on the denizens of urban sprawl, wielding scathing irony as a defense against a "ghost world" full of pop-cultural lemmings and uncertain futures. But when Enid picks a 40-ish vintage-record collector (Steve Buscemi) as the target of her latest cruel prank, she finds herself unexpectedly attracted to him ("he's the opposite of everything I completely hate") and is forced to confront her own crushing loneliness. This combination of deadpan sarcasm and deeply compassionate humanity makes Ghost World a rare and delicate comedy, with an ambiguous ending that suggests tragedy or hope, depending on your own point of view. --Jeff Shannon
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