2001 · comedy · drama
Ghost World
Directed by Terry Zwigoff1h 51m2001
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Our read: Ghost World (2001) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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How Ghost World feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You love deadpan teen misfit stories with comics-bred cynicism and awkward grown-up friendships.”
Skip it tonight — You need plot momentum tonight and hate mean-spirited irony about ordinary people.
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