Author: Steve Buscemi

Format: Closed-captioned

Release Date: 05-02-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Director-writer Terry Zwigoff's follow-up to his underground hit Crumb is a dark coming-of-age comedy about two super-cynical girls, Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), who have just graduated from high school. Glad to be free of the constraints of school, they struggle--together and separately--over the course of the summer to figure out what to do next. Based on an underground comic by cowriter Daniel Clowes that celebrates the weird and obscure, Ghost World offers a view of post-high school teen life that differs from the mainstream version as portrayed by any number of fluffy teen movies. Rebecca and Enid, like two modern-day Holden Caulfields, are joined at the hip in their distaste for all that is "average" and "normal." Enid describes her feelings for an older, obsessive record-collector geek, Seymour (Steve Buscemi), this way: "I like him because he's the exact opposite of everything I hate." Buscemi is perfectly cast in the role of the equally misanthropic and cynical Seymour, who further complicates the girls' friendship and plans for the future. Though Ghost World is as dark, weird, and awkward as its two main characters, it's also just as honest and real. It's a well-made movie that, like Crumb, doesn't whitewash or sanitize the reality of life as a teen. Being 18 and different from everybody else is confusing; thankfully, Zwigoff and Clowes don't attempt to offer tidy answers. --Adem Tepedelen

UPC: 027616867650

EAN: 0027616867650

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood