Rating: 
Summary: Definitely not as stellar as some may say!
Review: I love the actors in this movie! Ileana Douglas is a total goddess!! Any role she plays is always done with such a passion; I am still scratching my head as to why she doesn't get roles that show what kind of talent that lady really has. If you've seen the HBO series "Six Feet Under" I don't think there is anyone out there that has seen it that can honestly say they weren't moved or totally annoyed by her briefly displayed character in that series. The irony is, her character "made" that series and provided something no other actress could have pulled off. Well, Ileana does a little number in "Ghost World" too. You can honestly look at her character and know there is not one actress in Hollywood that can pull off playing an overtly passionate art teacher like Ileana! She's brilliant! Unfortunately, this movie isn't! It moves too slowly, has a dull plot, uses other extremely talented actors to play dumb-downed roles and fires jokes off at random without a punchline. There are moments in "Ghost World" that are reminiscent of "Romi and Michelle's High School Reunion," (a far better film that uses humor as a background and not as the focus of the story) which makes me think this film doesn't really have much originality. Countless movies have been made using the Goth genre as the setting for much more engaging stories but this movie simply doesn't bring home the bacon. As much as critics have hailed this movie, the only thing this proves is exactly how catatonic critics really are!
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Summary: [people] in Small towns Unite!
Review: As an inhabitor of my own gohst world all through high school, I adore this film. It's take on being a teen girl is refreshing, original, and true. Unlike wierd girl movies of recent ("She's All That), Thora Birch's Enid is herself through to the end. She changes for no one and shows you her wonderfully original world along the way. Anyone who doesn't like this movie enjoyed High School way too much to be sane.
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Summary: Funny and real.
Review: There are a lot of scenes in this film that I love to watch over and over. One of them of course is the scene in the liquor store with the nunchaku guy and the Greek liquor store owner--it is just so hilarious. Another scene I like is when Enid (Thora Birch) goes into a sex shop with Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and starts to laugh at everthing she sees and says out loud to everyone in the shop: "Oh my God, look at all these creeps!" I just cannot keep myself from laughing even if I have seen it already. The two girls are beautiful. I just wished there were smart girls like this when I was in high school. Thora Birch is a great female actor. I look forward to seeing her in more films. Scarlett Johansson is another talent to watch--I think she is hot.
Rating:
Summary: Perfect
Review: This much is perfect if you're not one of those stuck up snobs too engulfed in makeup and boys to think of anything else. Sure these girls don't really care about high school and life but it makes the film so much more interesting. Some of the best scenes are from little side characters in the film. Definently something to watch more than once.
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Summary: Overrated movie, feature free DVD
Review: Why was this film praised? I have no idea. The only reason the DVD received 2 stars was for the colors. The colors captured are great. That has to do with the costumes and lighting. Other than that avoid purchasing this film. Don't even rent it. Watch it on cable for "Doug", the guy with the mullet. After he disappears turn off the TV.
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Summary: Gets better as it goes along
Review: I will admit that I didn't like this movie very much after the first twenty minutes. I thought this was going to be another "Daria", the "Beavis and Butthead" spinoff. In that cartoon, the character Daria has a lot of good cynical observations about other people, but in the end, Daria really doesn't have anything of her own to offer, so it ends up as whining. Which is where I thought this one was going. You have a couple of very intelligent recent high school graduates that, we are led to believe, participated in absolutely nothing in their four years, mostly because it was beneath them. They are snobs about just about anything except themselves, but like Daria, contribute virtually nothing to make them interesting on their own. But this turns out to be just character establishment, and if you give the movie a chance, you see how life continues to chip away at the suits of armor the girls wear against the world. The blonde, Scarlett Johansson, cracks first. She lowers herself to actually get a job, and even though she still agrees that most of her customers are idiots, she starts to see that, well, that's what people are. And like it or not, you still have to exist with others to some degree. The unrecognizable, but still brilliant Thora Birch holds out a lot longer. She makes almost no attempt to get a job, and with the one she gets, she refuses to play the game. When she first meets the Steve Buscemi character, it's to humiliate him, then try to help what she sees as a total loser. In her world, practically everyone is a loser, but if they are a big enough loser, this makes them cool to some degree, and worthy of attention. There is a lot of mental work to be done when one has this personality. Besides the slow unraveling of the girls' shields, the movie is also great by not having a neatly wrapped up ending, either happy or sad. Enid (Birch) finds that because she's bothered when people reject her, this must mean that she actually must care for these people, and therefore, must have feelings. We don't see any clear direction of where she's going, but we do see an awakening. She will probably never totally play the game, but with seven billion people in the world, there might be more than one that are worth associating with.
Rating:
Summary: A good dark comedy.
Review: "Ghost World" was a good dark comedy. It works. The acting is good by a good cast. The stroy line and plot are good. One of the years best scriprts. Really funny. Worth seeing. The DVD's features are not anything great. I recomend this movie!
7/10
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Summary: Comic World Gets Flesh and Bone Treatment
Review: Birch (in her most convicning performance to date) and Buscemi are a delight as a deadpan prankster, who isn't that eager to find out if there actually is a life after highschool graduation, and a weidro loner, who falls for her with both hilarious and heartbreaking results.
Extremely well written and directed, with acerbic dialogue and razor-sharp characters, this comedy-drama isn't one to miss. Watch out for an unbilled Teri Garr!
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Summary: Best comedy of the year!
Review: Just so you know, while "Ghost World" did not take home an Oscar for adapted screenplay, it got a big award from the 2002 IFP/West Independent Spirit Annual Awards held in Santa Monica on 3/23. Two other IFP winners were "In the Bedroom" and "Memento", both shut out by Oscar. What do you make of that?
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Summary: Did I Miss Something? (Rent it first)
Review: First off, I admire the acting in this movie a lot. Thora Birch and Steve Buscemi carried their roles beautifully. I'm not sure if not being familiar with the comic "Ghost World" affected my opinion of this movie. I like a lot of movies that are so called "uneventful" films. This film just didn't strike me in any particular way. It wasn't really boring, but I just didn't find it "meaningful". It's one of those movies that you should rent before you buy, because there's plenty of people who seem to really adore this film, and then there's ones like me that are left scratching their heads and feeling silly for not understanding what beyond the acting and some of the art direction makes this film one you want to see over and over again.
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