Ghost World
With only the plan of moving in together after high school, neo-cool Enid and Rebecca take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.
26 July 1959, Belmar, New Jersey, USA
12 September 1958, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1 February 1954, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
27 September 1960, San Diego County, California, USA
26 July 1922, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1952, Jerusalem, Israel
1 June 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1951, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
2 May 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 August 1954, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
3 October 1979
11 December 1947, Lakewood, Ohio, USA
24 May 1971, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 May 1944, Pendleton, Oregon, USA
15 December 1979, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 August 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 24, 2010
Like "Rushmore" with a female slant, "Ghost World" tackles the true torches we often keep to ourselves as well as the struggle of feeling like a specter, or, as Enid says, as though "everyone's too stupid to realize you."
July 21, 2009
...satisfying in ways that more than compensate for the film's soft ending.
April 29, 2009
Has some grade A talent behind it, but it lacks any of the heart or emotion of the coming of age brand the film aspires toward...
April 12, 2013
The modest yet redeeming triumph of Ghost World is the offhand way it brings to the screen a streak of American dark humor that is dour, resilient and unexpectedly infectious.
July 07, 2010
By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.
April 12, 2013
While this isn't a showy or flashy movie, it has social, psychological, and ultimately mystical overtones that raise it leagues above most other teen-centered comedies.
June 24, 2006
It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.
April 12, 2013
See it for Birch's hostile stare and Johansson's devastating monotone.
July 09, 2012
A top draw adaptation of a cracking comic-book.
July 14, 2010
Most of Ghost World is funny, but the laughs are inextricably tied to the painful alienation and self-loathing that comes with living on society's fringes.
April 21, 2003
Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.
April 12, 2013
The greatest distinction of "Ghost World" is its singular spirit. Here's a dark, deadpan comedy about alienated kids that manages to be smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time.
