Ghostlight

Dan, a construction worker, has grown distant from his wife, Sharon, and their teenage daughter, Daisy following a family tragedy. He unexpectedly joins an amateur theater company mounting a low-budget production of Romeo and Juliet, where he finds companionship among a group of misfits and outsiders. The play's drama soon echoes the conflicts within his own household, pushing the family to reckon with the loss that has separated them.

Ghostlight is a comedy-drama from the United States, released in June 2024 and running 115 minutes. It is directed by Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, with O'Sullivan also writing the screenplay. Thompson's earlier features in chronological order are Saint Frances and Rounding; Ghostlight sits third among them, and both directors went on to make Mouse in 2026. Keith Kupferer leads as Dan, with Katherine Mallen Kupferer and Tara Mallen playing his daughter and wife, and Dolly de Leon, Hanna Dworkin and Tommy Rivera-Vega among the supporting cast of twenty-three credited performers.

The film's critical and audience responses are broadly aligned. A critics' rating of 8.2/10 across 108 reviews is high, and on IMDb it holds 7.5/10 from around 8,000 votes, indicating sustained approval well beyond opening audiences. On TMDB it stands at 7.2/10 from a much smaller pool of about 110 votes, a modest sample that nonetheless points in the same direction. The agreement across these measures suggests a film that found favor with reviewers and viewers alike rather than dividing them.