Ghostlight
2024 · Movie · R · 115 min · ★ 7.1 · 78% critics
A construction worker joins a local community theater staging of Romeo and Juliet, hoping for a break from mounting stress at home. As rehearsals bring him closer to his estranged teenage daughter, the lines between performance and real life blur, pushing the family to face grief, anger, and the possibility of healing.
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Details
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-06-14
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (100 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tender, tearjerking dramedy about family strain and the healing pull of community theater, in the vein of Saint Frances or Another Year; Not for you if you dislike slow, grief-heavy stories.
Pros: heartfelt family drama; strong performances; humor amid grief | Cons: slow burn pacing; heavy emotional themes; some scenes feel long
Themes
- therapy
- construction worker
- father daughter relationship
- theatre
- dramatic
- grieving family
- depressing
- ambiguous
Cast & crew
Keith Kupferer
as Dan Mueller
Katherine Mallen Kupferer
as Daisy
Tara Mallen
as Sharon
Dolly de Leon
as Rita
Hanna Dworkin
as Lanora
Tommy Rivera-Vega
as Lucian
Alma Washington
as Moira
Dexter Zollicoffer
as Greg
H.B. Ward
as Jonah
Matthew C. Yee
as Mikey
Directed by Alex Thompson, Kelly O'Sullivan