In transferring the material from page to screen, Zwigoff and Clowes have drastically toned it down. Brad Renfro is a tad bland as Josh, the closest thing Enid or Rebecca has to a boyfriend, but Bob Balaban is just right as Enid’s sweet, ineffectual father and Illeana Douglas is excellent as Roberta Allsworth, an art teacher who takes a shine to Enid and precipitates a crisis in the story. Casting the roles to perfection, Zwigoff recruited young Thora Birch and younger Scarlett Johansson for Enid and Rebecca, respectively, with Steve Buscemi as their forty-something companion. Zwigoff and Clowes adapted the book together, keeping the main characters and adding a third: Seymour, a nerdy record collector who appears briefly in the novel but is central to the movie, serving the teenagers as a butt for jokes, a slightly pathetic friend, an improbable romantic interest, and a middle-aged mirror of the hipster life gone sour. Fed up with her aimless existence, Enid eventually boards it, too, heading to who-knows-where in hopes of becoming “a totally different person.” Good luck with that. Its closest correlative in the narrative is a fleeting subplot about Norman, a man who waits endlessly for a bus on a discontinued line when late in the film the bus inexplicably arrives, he steps aboard and rides away. The title comes from a piece of graffiti seen occasionally in the novel but omitted from the film. They hang out at a retro diner, trade snide remarks about friends and strangers, make occasional excursions to fun places that aren’t much fun, and drift toward adulthood with little idea of where their lives are going. Told in his spare, elliptical style, the story centers on Enid and Rebecca, just out of high school and brimming with cynicism and ambivalence. It’s now available in a Criterion Collection Blu-ray and DVD edition that makes up in excellent visual quality what it lacks in compelling extras.Ĭlowes serialized Ghost World in his comic book Eightball and published it as a graphic novel (a term he dislikes) in 1997. The list definitely includes Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 Ghost World, also based on a Clowes graphic novel. The better ones include David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2005), Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis (2007), Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s American Splendor (2003), and Craig Johnson’s underrated Wilson (2017), adapted by Daniel Clowes from his graphic novel of that title.
Movies with Marvel and DC logos tilt so strongly toward spectacle and superheroes that it’s easy to forget the smaller, quieter films adapted from comics and graphic novels.
Thyne, Ezra Buzzington, Charles Schneider, David Cross, and Bruce Glover. Stevenson Jr., Dave Sheridan, Tom McGowan, Debra Azar, Brian George, Pat Healy, Rini Bell, T.J. Miller starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban, Stacey Travis, Charles C. Muraoka edited by Carole Kravetz Aykanian and Michael R. Produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, and Russell Smith directed by Terry Zwigoff written by Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff cinematography by Affonso Beato production design by Edward T.
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