Description After two girls, Enid and Becky, leave high school, neither of them know what they really want from life. On answering a personal ad Enid meets Seymour, a middle-aged odd-ball, and from then on the girls' friendship is changed forever...
| Credits | | Producer: | John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith | | Score Composer: | David Kitay |
Editorial Reviews "...Offbeat....By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny..." Variety - p.22 - Ken Eisner
"...[An] eerie, masterful movie....Birch is irresistibly poignant and appealing, Buscemi has the best role of his career, and he's both creepy and charming..." Movieline - p.36-8 - Stephen Farber
"...The whole cast is fantastic....There isn't a false note....GHOST WORLD manages to be grim and hilarious at the same time....This film is spot-on..." -- 4 out of 5 stars Box Office - p.54 - Cathy Thompson-Georges
"...It's surely the best depiction of teenage eccentricity since RUSHMORE....[The cast] brings Mr. Clowe's sad world of loneliness and disaffection to vivid comic life..." New York Times - p.E21 - A. O. Scott
"...Simultaneously poignant, intelligent and edgy....GHOST WORLD draws super, natural performances from Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and indie character actor Steve Buscemi..." USA Today - p.4E - Claudia Puig
"...A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers..." Entertainment Weekly - p.45 - Owen Gleiberman
"...Outrageously funny and steadily engrossing....A film like no other, an artful spellbinder that cuts deep....GHOST WORLD isn't easy to shake off..." Rolling Stone - p.70 - Peter Travers
"...Very funny, with a satirical edge sustained by one and all..." Los Angeles Times - p.2 - Kevin Thomas
"...Not only does the director display compassion towards his eccentric, marginalised creations, but the leisurely visual style suggests the look of the original comic-strip..." Total Film - p.89 - Tom Dawson
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