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Jerome, a kid from the suburbs who loves to draw, goes to New York City’s Strathmore College for his freshman year as a drawing major. Competition and petty jealousy consume faculty and students, with an end-of-first-semester best-student award held out as a grand plum. Worse, a strangler is on the loose, killing people on or next to campus. The idealistic Jerome falls in love with Audrey, a student who models for life-drawing classes and who responds to his sweetness. But he has a rival: the clean-cut, manly Jonah, also a first-year drawing student, whose primitive work draws raves and Audrey’s attention. As cynicism seems to corrode everything, Jerome is desperate to win. —IMDb

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Terry Zwigoff

Singular filmmaker Terry Zwigoff showed his talent for giving both real life and fictional outsiders their cinematic due in his as yet small but distinguished oeuvre.

A San Francisco resident, Zwigoff held numerous jobs, including musician, shipping clerk, printer, and welfare office worker, before he made his first foray into film in the 1980s with his documentary short Louie Bluie (1985). A portrait of an obscure blues artist, Louie Bluie revealed Zwigoff to be an able documentarian and presaged his personal passion for blues and jazz music that would give his feature Ghost World (2001) its extraordinary soundtrack. Zwigoff subsequently co-wrote two screenplays with his long time friend, underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, in the late ’80s but neither got made.

Instead, Zwigoff made Crumb himself the subject of his first feature-length documentary. A Sundance Film Festival sensation and art house hit, Crumb (1994) proved to be a devastating examination of a family utterly… read more

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film_lies101

7May12

Having actually attended art school, a bit of this film rang true. However, generalizations and stereotypes are not funny and even downright boring. One of the most toothless, lame satires I have ever seen. What the fuck happened Zwigoff/Clowes?

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Markus Baumknecht

6Apr12

"And who are you?" "I am a living cliché just like everyone of them."

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domina vegrandis

30Jan12

Certainly more honest than art school.

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wodehousing

22Aug11

Enjoyable, but the strangler plotline was completely unecessary!

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By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
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By Justyn on November 21, 2009

A disappointing followup to “Ghost World,” this satirical comedy trades its predecessor’s wit and compassion for lazy, smug misanthropy. The putative hero is supposed to be disgusted by the excesses…  read review

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