Midnight

Ghost World

Break out the Blueshammer and green hair dye, Ghost World is coming in 35mm! Documentary filmmaker Terry Zwigoff’s first fictional feature is a bitingly funny adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ famed underground comic. And it’s still as razor sharp as the day it was lensed, a darkly humorous adolescent requiem packed with pitch perfect detail and painfully realistic characters. A sardonic Thora Birch and a young Scarlett Johansson are quintessential outsiders Enid and Rebecca, teenagers adrift in post-high school ennui, suffocated by suburban mediocrity. But crossing paths with sad sack kindred spirit Seymour (Steve Buscemi in the bug-eyed record collector role he was born to play) will change their friendship forever. Filled with a dream supporting cast (Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Brad Renfro, Pat Healy, Teri Garr), Ghost World stands out from the teen-flick pack, creating specific, believable people and all-too-relatable cringe-inducing laughs. Essential viewing for the misfit loner in all of us!