We know something's wrong when we first meet Dan, the melancholy construction worker player by Keith Kupferer in Ghostlight. Called to the local high school, we learn his daughter Daisy, played by Kupferer's real life daughter Katherine, has acted out and faces suspension. Road rage, mandated therapy, and a job lay off, leave Dan wandering, when chance leads him to an amateur theater company, where he can leave the world behind. A cast of misfits rehearses Romeo and Juliet, a play with the key to Dan's family misery. Ghostlight builds to a highly unlikely but deeply satisfying conclusion. This small independent film, shot on a shoestring, packs an emotional punch impossible to resist. Now streaming, my wife and I think it's the best six bucks we've spent this year.
