This quirky teen-angst drama was one of the biggest hits of the last Seattle International Film Festival: the winner of its best-actress honors for star Thora Birch, and a close runner-up in both the ...

There is a scene in Ghost World when Thora Birch asks a man sitting on a bench, forever waiting for a bus that will never come, if he knows that his wait is pointless. He promises her that the bus ...