Ghostlight

2024

Action / Comedy / Drama

30
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 92% · 108 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 92% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 7774 7.8K

therapy construction worker father daughter relationship theatre grieving family depressing

Plot summary

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

Director

Alex Thompson Photo
Alex Thompson

Top cast

Cindy Gold Photo
Cindy Gold as Therapist
Katherine Kupferer Photo
Katherine Kupferer as Daisy
Dolly De Leon Photo
Dolly De Leon as Rita
Sarab Kamoo Photo
Sarab Kamoo as Joan Spencer
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1.03 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kotrob-13695 9 / 10

An Oscar-worthy performance

Reviewed by twocents2 9 / 10

See the Light

I was invited to an industry screening, but recommend paying your way in to see this gem. It opened in June with very little buzz, but apparently is going wider now. Writer Kelly O'Sullivan directed it with her partner Alex Thompson. I missed their first film, the much lauded Saint Frances.The Mueller family uses a community theater production of "Romeo and Juliet" as a cathartic vessel to soothe the pain of their son's suicide. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death involve a lawsuit and a pivotal deposition. The writer skillfully withheld the shocking details until very late, as most storytelling is about secrets. Father Dan (Kieth Kupferer) is a construction worker in the Chicago area. His relationship with his wife Sharon (Tara Mallen) is worsening by the day. Their fifteen year old daughter Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer) had a fight at school, is suspended and sees a mandated therapist at $150 an hour. Dan had a fight at work with a motorist and almost had to take a mandatory leave. Waitress Rita (Dolly De Leon) saw this and, out of both pity and necessity, asked him to join her theater production, meeting nights and weekends because everyone has jobs. Dan is of course a lousy actor. But after the original Romeo quits, Rita talks him into the role opposite her Juliet. It's a much more age congruent match. They were planning to stage their sole performance in the cramped rehearsal space in the heart of town. But Sharon is a schoolteacher and persuades the powers that be to gift them the gym.It's such a terrific feel good movie, with a fair amount of angst and bitterness swirled in. Dan, Sharon and Daisy are a family in real life. This really cemented their performances beyond what a normal cast would achieve. Kupferer has a ton of theater experience, which he employs to great effect. Dolly De Leon is fantastic as Rita. She continues to produce excellent work after her Triangle of Sadness breakthrough and Between the Temples. The physical disparity between the hulking Romeo and petite Juliet is a source of easy laughs, but that all fades once they are in character. It's always a joy to see theater and film converge, as in Vanya on 42nd Street or Birdman. A raft of rave film festival reviews are entirely accurate.
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