Country: USA, UK
Year: 2001
Duration: 111'
Enid and Rebecca are two friends who have just graduated from high school and have to decide what to do with their lives. Enid would like to leave home: she is tired of her father and his fiancée Maxine. Rebecca is less restless but just as undecided as to her future. During the summer, the two friends are inseparable and spend a lot of time running after Josh, who is their age, but he doesn't seem very interested in them. Enid meets Seymour, who collects records and is much older then her. The two become friends, even though Rebecca is against it.
"Enid is an outsider. She can't adapt to the world around her, she is trying to make a place for herself in a country that is rapidly becoming a theme park for consumers, a sort of monoculture without anything authentic left in it" (Terry Zwigoff).
Biography
film director
Terry Zwigoff
Terry Zwigoff was born in 1948 and got his start in entertainment as a musician. In 1978 he bought a rare record from an unknown bluesman from Chicago. His efforts to find out more about him was the basis for Louie Bluie (1985). In 1994, he made his second non-fiction work, Crumb, which won the Jury's Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was successful world-wide. Ghost World is his first fiction film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Louie Bluie (doc., 1985), Crumb (doc., 1994), Ghost World (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Terry Zwigoff.
Plot: dal fumetto di Daniel Clowes.
Screenplay: Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff.
Director of photography: Affonso Beato.
Art director: Edward T. McAvoy, Michael R. Miller.
Costume designer: Mary Zophres.
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian.
Sound: Mark Weingarten.
Music: David Kitay.
Cast and characters: Thora Birch (Enid), Scarlett Johansson (Rebecca), Steve Buscemi (Seymour), Brad Renfro (Josh), Illeana Douglas (Roberta Allsworth), Bob Balaban (il padre di Enid).
Production company: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith per Mr. Mudd, 5225 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 604, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA, tel. +1-323-9325656.
Co-production: Granada Film/Jersey Shore/ United Artists.
Foreign sales agent: Capitol Film, 23 Queensdale Place, London, UK, tel. +44-207-4716000, fax +44-207-4716012.
Plot: dal fumetto di Daniel Clowes.
Screenplay: Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff.
Director of photography: Affonso Beato.
Art director: Edward T. McAvoy, Michael R. Miller.
Costume designer: Mary Zophres.
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian.
Sound: Mark Weingarten.
Music: David Kitay.
Cast and characters: Thora Birch (Enid), Scarlett Johansson (Rebecca), Steve Buscemi (Seymour), Brad Renfro (Josh), Illeana Douglas (Roberta Allsworth), Bob Balaban (il padre di Enid).
Production company: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith per Mr. Mudd, 5225 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 604, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA, tel. +1-323-9325656.
Co-production: Granada Film/Jersey Shore/ United Artists.
Foreign sales agent: Capitol Film, 23 Queensdale Place, London, UK, tel. +44-207-4716000, fax +44-207-4716012.