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Garden State, 2004
English, Klingon
USA
Profile of Garden State
The mood of Garden State is bittersweet, clever, and sentimental. The plot centers around homecoming, self discovery, and family problems. It is a drama, comedy, and independent movie. In approach, Garden State is realistic. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town. Garden State is set in New Jersey. It happens in contemporary times. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Garden State is especially suggested for a date night. Note that it includes drugs/alcohol, sexual content, and profanity.
Summary of Garden State
Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's SCRUBS) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional numbness he's felt for years, he reconnects with old friends Mark (Peter Sarsgaard), a gravedigger, and Albert (Denis O'Hare), a millionaire who invented noiseless Velcro. In a doctor's office, he meets ebullient Sam (Natalie Portman), an epileptic whose lust for life inspires Andrew to feel things that his medication long denied him. Over four days, he develops feelings for Sam he didn't know he was capable of, and faces up to the resentment his father holds toward him about an accident that happened long ago.
Writer, director, and star Zach Braff makes his debut feature with this off-kilter, unusually smart, self-assured coming-of-age film. GARDEN STATE has a knack for sharp-edged humor, character quirks, and finding lovely imagery within the mundanity of the suburbs. These things combined are abundant evidence to indicate that Braff's filmmaking future is filled with limitless promise.
Details
| Language: | English, Klingon |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 January 2004 |
| Runtime: | 102 min |
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USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
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- by: Peter Travers
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- 04.November.2011
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- by: Brieanna
- Brieanna rated this movie6/10Okay
- 05.March.2011
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- by: onearmfrog
- onearmfrog rated this movie
8/10Great
