Garden State
 | Starring: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Amy Ferguson, Jill Flint, Gary Gilbert 20th Century Fox, 2004, DVD Customer Rating: 469 reviews Recommend |
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Writer/Director Zach Braff delivers "an Oscar®-worthy performance" (CBS-TV Chicago) opposite a "wacky and endearing" (Newsweek) Natalie Portman in this quirky, coming-of-age comedy. Twentysomething, emotionally detached Andrew "Large" Largeman (Braff) hasn’t been home to New Jersey in nine years. Now, as Large attempts to re-connect with a variety of odd acquaintances – including his father – he decides to risk getting high on the most potent and unpredictable drug there is…life! Co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm and Method Man, Garden State is "marvelous fun" (Rolling Stone)
Zach Braff (from the TV show Scrubs) stars in his writing/directing debut, Garden State — normally a doomed act of hubris, but Braff pulls it off with unassuming charm. An emotionally numb actor in L.A., Andrew (Braff) comes back to New Jersey after nine years away for his mother's funeral. Andrew avoids his bitter father (Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter) and joins old friends (including the superb Peter Sarsgaard, Boys Don't Cry) in a round of parties. Along the way he meets a girl (Natalie Portman, Beautiful Girls) with demons of her own; bit by bit the two offer each other a little healing. Plotwise, Garden State is familiar stuff, a cross between The Graduate and a Meg Ryan movie, but Braff has an eye for goofy but resonant visual images, an ear for lively dialogue, and a great cast. The result is surprisingly fresh and funny. — Bret Fetzer
Title: Garden State
Sales Rank: 1613 in DVD
Actor: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Amy Ferguson, Jill Flint, Gary Gilbert
Studio: 20th Century Fox, 2004-12-28
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 2.35:1
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Item Dimensions: 0.22 pounds
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches, 0.1 pounds
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