Ghost World
16,807
Comedy
Enid and Rebecca are best friends having difficulties with the social attitudes of other people. After graduating high school, they decide to get a job and rent a house of their own. However, Enid needs to attend Arts summer school to graduate but her anti-social behavior makes her lose her job. Meanwhile, Enid and Rebecca play a prank on Seymour, a middle-aged collector of vinyl records that also has difficulties with relationships. ... [+]
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United States | Chicago Sun-Times | "It creates specific, original, believable, lovable characters, and meanders with them through their inconsolable days, never losing its sense of humor (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "It's surely the best depiction of teenage eccentricity since 'Rushmore,'" | POS |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "A buoyant, funny, and disarmingly humane comedy of beautiful losers in revolt." | POS |
United States | The Wall Street Journal | "Smart, surpassingly odd, extremely funny and mysteriously endearing at the same time." | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "If, like me, you've been wondering how Terry Zwigoff, the brilliant documentary filmmaker who made 'Crumb,' would negotiate his shift to fiction filmmaking, here's your answer: brilliantly." | POS |
United States | New York Daily News | "Funny, insightful, unpredictable and blessed with pitch-perfect performances, Ghost World is one of the year's best movies." | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "A true original, with sharp humour, subtle detail and painfully realistic characters" | POS |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A singularly unsettling portrait of a culture in the grip of the mediocre." | POS |
United States | Slant | "An ironic, humorous, painful and never pandering account of the ghostly nature that accompanies loss, hurt, regret, love and, ultimately, memory itself." | POS |
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