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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.
23 August 1954, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
22 June 1978, Harvey, Illinois, USA
26 July 1922, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
26 July 1959, Belmar, New Jersey, USA
3 January 1927, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
25 July 1965, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
29 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1952, Jerusalem, Israel
13 November 1968, Long Beach, California, USA
19 February 1960, Evanston, Illinois, USA
18 December 1962, Summit, New Jersey, USA
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.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."June 24, 2006
It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.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
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.July 21, 2009
...satisfying in ways that more than compensate for the film's soft ending.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.April 21, 2003
Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.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 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.July 07, 2010
By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.