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Ghost World
Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following 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.
2001 · Directed by Terry Zwigoff · 111 min · Comedy · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Accentuate the negative.
Plot
Best friends Enid and Rebecca face the summer after their high school graduation, with no plans for their future, other than to find jobs and live together. The girls are cynical social outcasts, but Rebecca is more popular with boys than Enid. Enid's diploma is withheld on the condition that she attend a remedial art class. Even though she is a talented artist, her art teacher, Roberta, believes that art must be socially meaningful and dismisses Enid's sketches as nothing more than "light entertainment".
The girls see a personal ad in which a lonely, middle-aged man named Seymour asks a woman he met recently to contact him. Enid makes a prank phone call to Seymour, pretending to be the woman and inviting him to meet her at a diner. The two girls and their friend, Josh, secretly watch Seymour at the diner and make fun of him. Enid soon begins to feel sympathy for Seymour, and they follow him to his apartment building.
They later find him selling vintage records in a garage sale. Enid buys an old blues album from him, and they become friends. Around this time, Enid meets an old man named Norman who continually waits at an out-of-service bus stop for a bus that will never come.
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Crew
- Written by: Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff
- Cinematography: Affonso Beato
- Edited by: Carole Kravetz Aykanian, Michael R. Miller
- Music: David Kitay
- Production design: Edward T. McAvoy
- Produced by: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith
Cast
- Thora Birch as Enid
- Scarlett Johansson as Rebecca
- Steve Buscemi as Seymour
- Brad Renfro as Josh
- Illeana Douglas as Roberta Allsworth
- Bob Balaban as Enid's Dad
- Stacey Travis as Dana
- Charles C. Stevenson Jr. as Norman
- Dave Sheridan as Doug
- Tom McGowan as Joe
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Germany
- Language: English
- Studios: Mr. Mudd, Granada Productions, Capitol Films, Advanced Medien
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Box office: $8,800,000
- Themes: female friendship, based on comic, high school graduation, best friend, high school friends, social outcast, art class, record collector, plaster, personal ad
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