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
29 December 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1922, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
31 May 1938, New York City, New York, USA
14 September 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 May 1932, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 August 1964, Dallas, Texas, USA
1 February 1954, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
19 February 1960, Evanston, Illinois, USA
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
25 July 1982, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
4 April 1964, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
10 April 1956, USA
27 September 1960, San Diego County, California, USA
18 December 1962, Summit, New Jersey, USA
6 December 1969, Buffalo, New York, USA
24 August 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
25 May 1944, Pendleton, Oregon, USA
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 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.
July 07, 2010
By sharp turns poignant, disturbing and hysterically funny.
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.
June 24, 2006
It isn't a perfect film, but it's never less than strikingly original.
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.
July 09, 2012
A top draw adaptation of a cracking comic-book.
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.
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
See it for Birch's hostile stare and Johansson's devastating monotone.
April 21, 2003
Zwigoff pulls off something in Ghost World that seems a minor miracle -- he creates someone with a complex inner life.
