Adapted from a comic by Daniel Clowes (not a super-hero one I'll add) and directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb and Bad Santa), this tale follows a pair of unimpressed/disenchanted teens, recent high-school graduates, deciding what to do with their lives following a decision not to attend college.
Starring Thora Birch (fresh from American Beauty fame), Scarlett Johansson (fresh from Eight Legged Freaks fame) and co-starring Steve Buscemi (not so fresh from Reservoir Dogs fame), this film is dry, understated and engrossing in its mundanity.
Ghost World is one of the new breed of cult films. With conversation led comic adaptations getting the film treatment almost as readily as the action led variety, it's good to see that intelligent and witty writing still flourishes in the land of hopes and dreams.
Budget: $7,000,000
Gross: $8,761,393
Line of the film: "I'm taking a remedial high school class for fuck ups and retards!"
Line of the film: "I'm taking a remedial high school class for fuck ups and retards!"
Fun Fact: The film was released in 2001 on only five screens...and still, eventually made a worldwide profit.
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