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A Ghost Story
Theatrical release poster

Directed by David Lowery
Written by David Lowery
Toby Halbrooks
Produced by
James M. Johnston
Adam Donaghey
Starring Casey Affleck
Rooney Mara
Will Oldham
Liz Cardenas Franke
Sonia Acevedo
Rob Zabrecky
Cinematography Andrew Droz Palermo
Edited by David Lowery
Music by Daniel Hart
Production Sailor Bear

companies
Zero Trans Fat Productions
Ideaman Studios
Scared Sheetless
Distributed by A24
Release dates January 22, 2017 (Sundance)
July 7, 2017 (United States)
Running time 92 minutes[1]
Country United States
Languages English
Spanish
Budget $100,000[2]
Box office $2 million[3]
A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed

by David Lowery and starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, with Will Oldham, Liz
Cardenas Franke, Sonia Acevedo, and Rob Zabrecky in supporting roles. It is about a
man who becomes a ghost and remains in the house he shared with his wife.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017, and
was released by A24 in the United States on July 7, 2017. It received positive reviews
from critics.
Plot[edit]
A woman (credited as "M") mentions to her musician husband (credited as "C") that as a
child, she moved residences frequently and took to hiding little notes wherever she
lived. C is resistant to M's desire to move, creating tension within their relationship.
When he finally acquiesces, they hear a loud bang, the source of which they are unable
to identify.
Shortly afterwards, C is killed in a car accident nearby. At the hospital, M covers his
body with a sheet before departing. C awakens as a ghost, invisible to the living. Still
covered with the sheet, he wanders through the hospital. A door of light opens before
him, but he makes no attempt to approach it and it closes.
C walks home and sees Linda, his landlord, drop off a pie. M arrives and eats the pie
until she vomits. Unable to communicate with her, C watches M grieve before
proceeding with her life. In the house next door, he sees another ghost covered by a
flower-print sheet who says that they are waiting for someone, though they do not
remember who.
Upon discovering that M is dating another man, C jealously creates disturbances inside
the house. Later, M listens to one of C's songs and recalls the first time he played it for
her. She moves away, but first writes a note and hides it in a gap between
some molding, which she paints over. C picks at the paint but is unable to reach the
note.
Later, a Spanish-speaking single mother moves into the house with her young son and
daughter. C watches them eat, play the piano and celebrate Christmas. The children
begin to sense his presence and become frightened. One night, he knocks a framed
photo of the family off the piano and smashes dishes in the kitchen. The family moves
out and the ghost continues scraping at the paint.
At a party thrown by the next occupants, a woman says she has stopped working on her
novel and a man responds by claiming all creative pursuits are pointless, as the
universe will eventually end. The partygoers notice the lights flicker.
The house is abandoned and becomes derelict. C's efforts to retrieve the note are
interrupted by a bulldozer crashing through a wall. The house next door is also torn
down; the flower-print ghost, while standing amongst the ruins, says "I don’t think
they’re coming" and disappears from beneath its sheet. A skyscraper is built where the
house was; once it is finished, C views a futuristic cityscape from the balcony before
jumping off the ledge.
The celestial sphere rotates in reverse, and C finds himself in a field in the 19th century
with a man who is driving stakes into the ground. The man's wife and three daughters
arrive in a covered wagon, and the family prepares to build a house. The youngest
daughter writes a note and hides it under a rock while humming the tune of C's song.
Native Americans attack and kill the family, and C watches the girl's corpse decay.
Back in the house, which is empty except for the piano, C sees himself and M enter and
look around. His life in the house repeats itself; he witnesses their last argument, and
upon hearing his past self finally give in, he sits down heavily at the piano, creating the
bang that had earlier startled the couple. Later, C watches his earlier ghost-self watch M
leave the house for the last time. He finally retrieves the note and, upon reading it,
disappears, his empty sheet collapsing to the floor.
Cast[edit]
 Casey Affleck as C
 Rooney Mara as M
 Kenneisha Thompson as Doctor
 Liz Cardenas Franke as Linda
 Barlow Jacobs as Gentleman Caller
 Sonia Acevedo as Maria
 Carlos Bermudez as Carlos
 Yasmina Gutierrez as Yasmina
 Kesha Sebert as Spirit Girl
 Jared Kopf as Magician
 Will Oldham as Prognosticator
 Brea Grant as Clara
 Augustine Frizzell as Clara's Wife Who is Writing a Book
s agricultural terraces, plazas, residential areas, and temples.

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A Ghost Story

Theatrical release poster

Written by David Lowery

Starring Casey Affleck

Liz Cardenas Franke

Cinematography Andrew Droz Palermo

Edited by David Lowery

Music by Daniel Hart

Production Sailor Bear

Release dates January 22, 2017 (Sundance)

Running time 92 minutes[1]

Country United States

Box office $2 million[3]

A Ghost Story is a 2017 American supernatural drama film written and directed

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