A Ghost Story
2017 · Movie · R · 93 min · ★ 7.1 · 88% critics
After a recent death, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife. But in his spectral state, he becomes untethered from time, forced to watch life move on as their love and familiar world slowly slip away.
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Details
- Years
- 2017
- Release date
- 2017-04-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Critic score
- 88/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (2,497 votes)
- Box office
- $1,951,683
- Budget
- $100,000
About
You may enjoy this if you like quiet, emotional films that rely on atmosphere and patience rather than constant action or dialogue, like The Green Knight or Looking; Not for you if you need a fast pace or a more conventional story.
Pros: haunting grief mood; unique slow storytelling; powerful emotional silence | Cons: very slow pacing; minimal plot movement; divisive pie scene
Themes
- sadness
- house
- loss
- grief
- morality
- construction
- death
- ghost
- piano
Cast & crew
Casey Affleck
as C
Rooney Mara
as M
McColm Cephas Jr.
as Little Boy
Kenneisha Thompson
as Doctor
Grover Coulson
as Man in Wheelchair
Liz Cardenas
as Linda
Barlow Jacobs
as Gentleman Caller
- RK
Richard Krause
as Mover
Dagger Salazar
as Mover
Sonia Acevedo
as Maria
Directed by David Lowery