An amazing and very touching film. One of the best comic book movies in years. A classic indie movie, worth checking out for Thora Birch's standout performance, Steve Buscemi (one of my favourite actors) and as always the very good Scarlett...
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An amazing and very touching film. One of the best comic book movies in years. A classic indie movie, worth checking out for Thora Birch's standout performance, Steve Buscemi (one of my favourite actors) and as always the very good Scarlett Johansson.

Best friends Enid and Rebecca graduate from high school and find themselves forced to enter the real world. Enid is the goth rebel, anti-conformist who loathes the fake world and because of this, can never keep a job. While Enid and Rebecca are huge friends, Rebecca also sharing some of the goth-like care-free attitude, she realises she's a pretty girl and knows how to get through in the real world. As she drifts away, Enid has to adjust to a world where she's actually alone but then eventually bumps into a lonely loser (Steve Buscemi) through a prank call. She starts feel sorry for him and gets into his interests with old jazzy music. Eventually, she starts have feelings for him and then there's this forbidden love where age difference matters. The movie works extremely well as a coming-of-age movie that is much more mature than most of the drought that has been coming these many years. The dialogue is tight but loose at the same time, and the script is engaging, written from the same hand who did the comic book, Daniel Clowes. You get emotionally involved and connect with each character, their honesty, their pain, and their trials. This movie is a must-see for anyone wanting a dark comedy. A very memorable film that has one of the best endings in years, a real tear-jerker. Be sure to check out Terry Zwigoff's other movie Crumb, which is based on Robert Crumb, a similar underground comic book writer to Daniel Clowes.