Ghost World (film)

Ghost World is a 2001 American comedydrama film directed by Terry Zwigoff, based on the comic book of the same name by Daniel Clowes, with a screenplay cowritten by Clowes and Zwigoff. The story focuses on the lives of Enid and Rebecca played by Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, two teenage outsiders in an unnamed American city. The film was released with limited boxoffice success, but it was extremely well received by film critics.

The girls see a personal ad in which a lonely middleaged man named Seymour asks a woman he met recently to contact him. Enid makes a prank phone call to Seymour, pretending to be the woman and inviting him to meet her at a diner, and when he goes there, the two girls, and their friend Josh, secretly watch and make fun of Seymour. However, Enid begins to feel sympathy for Seymour, so a few days later the girls follow him to his apartment building, where they find him selling vintage records in a garage sale. Enid buys an old blues album from him, and they gradually become friends. She tries to find women for him to date.Meanwhile, Enid has been attending her art class and in order to please her art teacher, Roberta, Enid persuades Seymour to lend her an old poster depicting a grotesquely caricatured black man, which was once used as a promotional tool by Coon Chicken Inn. In the film, Coon Chicken Inn has been renamed Cooks Chicken, the friedchicken franchise where Seymour works in a managerial position. In class, she presents the poster as a social comment about racism, and Roberta is so impressed with the concept that she later offers Enid a scholarship to an art college. ........

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