A Ghost Story (2017)
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Adam added 9/15/2026 · edited 10/1/2026
He had just finished a Disney movie. Dragons, effects, a budget in the tens of millions. Then he disappeared for nineteen days and shot a movie in secret.
It cost about a hundred thousand dollars, it was nearly wordless, and its main character was a man under a white bedsheet with two eyeholes cut in it.
David Lowery's A GHOST STORY (2017) should have been ridiculous. A grown man in a makeshift Halloween costume drifting through a house is a joke, until it becomes one of the loneliest images you have ever seen.
The man, played by Casey Affleck, cannot leave the property. So he stays, years running past, holding on as the remnants of his life fall away.
Rooney Mara plays the widow, and in one unbroken shot that stops the movie dead, she sits on the floor and eats an entire pie. The scene feels both interminable and true.
About the Film
It's all about time.
- Directed By
- David Lowery
- Runtime
- 93 minutes
- Released
- April 24, 2017
- US Theatrical
- July 7, 2017
- Certification
- R
- Country
- United States of America
- Starring
- Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, Grover Coulson
More Credits
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Language
- English
- Origin
- US
- Studios
- Sailor Bear, Zero Trans Fat Productions, Ideaman Studios
- Written By
- David Lowery
- Produced By
- David Maddox, James M. Johnston, Toby Halbrooks, Adam Donaghey
- Cinematography
- Andrew Droz Palermo
- Music
- Daniel Hart
- Also Starring
- Liz Cardenas, Barlow Jacobs, Richard Krause, Dagger Salazar, Sonia Acevedo
- Budget
- $100,000
- Box Office
- $1,929,659
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I honestly loved this movie.
Incredibly simple and effective story. Timeless and moody. Love it
Incredible, unforgettable film. Love it.
The title of this film, my partner and I still joke, should have been “Woman eating entire pie on the floor for 15 minutes.” One of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
I wasn’t too sure about this movie after watching it the first time as it wasn’t what I was expecting.
After watching it a second time I loved it. It stayed with me a long time as I found it very emotional.
I love the justification for the bedsheet.
Lowry’s best film (and I’ve enjoyed many of them). This really is special and maybe addresses time and eternity better than any other film I can think of. It’s absolutely wonderful.