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MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2001 | Running Time: 111 minutes

Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, who enjoyed breakthrough success with his 1994 documentary Crumb, shifts gears as he examines the lives of two young women on the verge of leaving their adolescence behind in his first dramatic feature. Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are two close ...more

Coming at a time riddled with soulless retreads of tired material, Ghost World is a true original, a film blissfully unafraid to make even the most mundane events of life seem dazzling and revitalizing. Terry Zwigoff's masterful, note-perfect adaptation of the popular graphic novel by Daniel Clowes is such an unmitigated success because it understands the difficult tone of post-adolescence and throws all of its uncertainty, eerieness, and beauty together in one glorious package. In a model ...more



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