It's the best smile you'll get through the whole movie

Plenty of freaks, plenty of weirdoes but not a ghost in sight.

Nigel Bell

And there was I thinking this was going to be the third big low budget scary movie of the year (after Ginger Snaps and Jeepers Creepers).

How wrong. The Ghost World in question is the weird domain inhabited by Enid and Rebecca, the central characters of the movie based on the comic art of Daniel Clowes.

Rebecca is played by Johansson, recently seen as the temptress in The Man Who Wasn't There. Thora Bird (Enid) has come a long way since portraying Harrison Ford's daughter in Patriot Games.

The film begins with graduation day. Unlike their friends, Enid and Rebecca are not going onto college. For them school life is to be replaced by employment and sharing an apartment together. At least that's the plan...it's also the beginning of their break up.

Come and see my 78s little girl

The 18-year-olds can't relate to anything in modern society. They prefer mixing with losers and creating their own entertainment, like scanning the personal ads column and fixing up blind dates for people.

It's this which brings them into contact with Seymour (Buscemi), a middle ranking manager of a fast food chain who'd prefer to spend his days cataloguing his collection of 78rpm blues records.

A sad guy for sure, but it's sad guys and girls who proliferate Ghost World.

Despite beginning as an object of ridicule, Enid becomes more attached to Seymour, especially as life at home becomes increasingly unbearable.

Time to find someone a friend

Their relationship develops further as best friend Rebecca begins to conform (she gets a job, actively looks for a flat).

Ghost World has touches of Coen brother magic about it. Interesting characters who aren't Hollywood beautiful.

There's a feminist arts teacher and a man who spends all his days sitting at a bus stop waiting for a bus which was cancelled two years previously.

By the end of the film this man has become the only constant in Enid's crumbling life.

Stand out scene is when the girls gate crash Seymour's "party" only to discover it's a meeting of fellow record enthusiasts debating whether CD gives the same reproduction quality and warmth of vinyl.

We've all been there...haven't we!?