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Actors: Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ghost World |
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In this comedy two girls graduate from high school. They both love to bug other people. Their latest victim is a weird loner. One of the girls starts to fall in love with this guy and when they do the girls start to grow farther apart.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Just out of high school, best friends Enid and Becky are counter-culture rebels (Enid more than Becky), talk about moving in together, and have a crush on classmate Josh. One day they play a prank on a lonely, nerdy middle aged guy named Seymour, but the joke backfires and Enid checks him out further and decides to find him a girlfriend. While Becky lands a job in a coffee place, Enid eludes employment and her overly solicitous dad, and draws the weird world around her in her journal. Directed by "Crumb" director Terry Zwigoff and based on Daniel Clewes's graphic novel, "Ghost World" is not an eventful or deeply moving film, but it's quirky fun, and the performance of Buscemi as Seymour (for once, a SWEETLY weird character) and Birch as Enid (she was Spacey's daughter in "American Beauty") carry the movie nicely, though it ends a little vaguely.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ghost World |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
- seduction (yum!)
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- trouble at work
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- learns to be more sensitive
If a parody... of
- californians
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (man) very skinny
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- comics
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