How to watch Ghostlight at home? Digital release date, platforms, and more explored

Modified Jul 31, 2024 15:46 GMT

A still from the film (image via IFC Films)

Ghostlight is one of the best critically acclaimed films released in 2024. There is great news, as a digital release date for the film has been finally announced. The American drama film directed by Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson opened to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

Ghostlight digitally premiered across Video On Demand platforms on July 30, 2024. The film witnesses its digital premiere a little more than a month following its theatrical release in the USA. IFC Films and Sapan Studio distributed the film for a limited release across theaters in the USA on June 14, 2024. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year on January 18, 2024.

The heartfelt drama film centers around the struggles of a working-class family in Chicago as they deal with the aftermath of an unspecified trauma. The film garnered acclaim for the use of drama (quite literally, as one of the characters gets drawn into the production of a play) as a mode of catharsis. Follow the article for all the details about the digital premiere of Ghostlight.

Where to watch Ghostlight? Digital streaming options explored

A poster of the film (image via IFC Films)

Ghostlight premiered digitally across Video on Demand platforms on July 30, 2024, as mentioned earlier. The digital release of the critically acclaimed drama film makes it available to a wide range of viewers who might have missed out on it in theaters.

The film can either be purchased or rented on various VOD services, making it easy to watch from the comfort of one's home. Ghostlight is available on a number of Video on Demand services, such as:

Amazon Prime Video
Roku
Apple TV+
iTunes
Vudu
Hulu

The film is available for rent on VID services for $3.99. The film can also be purchased and stored in the digital library for $9.99. The film is still awaiting an announcement regarding its release for streaming. It will only be available on Video on Demand services for now.

What is Ghostlight about?

The drama film that centers around how a family deals with a traumatic incident. The plot follows a construction worker named Dan Mueller (Keith Kupfere), who is caught in a wrongful death lawsuit he filed against the ex-girlfriend of his deceased son Brian. He also has to deal with his daughter Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), who is a miscreant in her school and often finds herself in trouble. At the same time, Dan's wife Sharon (Tara Mallen) is barely holding in her immense grief for the sake of the family.

The story beautifully explores how each person deals with grief in their individual ways when Dan gets involved in a local production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A community theater actor named Rita (Dolly de Leon) helps Dan enter the world of theater, where he slowly confronts his own demons surrounding his son's death.

Dan finds an unexpected avenue for catharsis in his subtly humorous foray into the theatrical arts, replete with a colorful cast of characters. The growing similarities between the genuine suffering of a broken family and Shakespeare's most well-known tragedy are captured on film with an uncommon level of intimacy, and it all adds up to a stirring celebration of the timeless and transformational power of acting.