Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Ghost world [videorecording (DVD)].

View full image

Criterion Collection, 2017.

Graphic novels -- Film adaptations.

Teacher-student relationships -- Drama.

Suburban life -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 872.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Director-Approved DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (111 min.) : Dolby digital, Surround sd. ; 12 cm.

Based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes.

Originally released as a comedy-drama motion picture in 2001.

Director-Approved DVD special edition features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by writer-director Terry Zwigoff ; Audio commentary featuring Zwigoff, comic-book creator and screenwriter Daniel Clowes, and producer Lianne Halfon ; new interviews with and actors Thora Birch and Illeana Douglas ; extended excerpt from Gumnaam (1965) featuring the Bollywood musical number that appears in Gohst World’s opening title sequence ; deleted scenes ; trailer ; PLUS: An essay by critic Howard Hampton, a 2001 piece by Zwigoff on the film's soundtrack.

16:9 widescreen 1.85:1. Theatrical release format. Enhanced for widescreen TVs.

Includes English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

United Artists Films Inc. and Granada Film Ltd. ; produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith ; written by Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff ; directed by Terry Zwigoff.

Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Brad Renfro with Illeana Douglas and Steve Buscemi.

"Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that's at once bleakly comic and wholly endearing. Set during the malaise-filled months following high-school graduation, Ghost World follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist suburbia. As her cynicism becomes too much to bear even for her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid finds herself drawn to an unlikely kindred spirit: a sad-sack record collector many years her senior (Steve Buscemi). With its parade of oddball characters, quotable, Oscar-nominated script, and eclectic soundtrack of vintage obscurities, Ghost World is one of the twenty-first century’s most fiercely beloved comedies.

Coming-of-age films.

Dark comedy films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Clowes, Daniel. Ghost world.

Zwigoff, Terry.

Johansson, Scarlett, 1984-

Renfro, Brad, 1982-2008.

Douglas, Illeana, 1965-

Buscemi, Steve, 1957-

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal