Garden State

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Call Number: DVD Drama Garden
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Special features: feature commentary with writer/director/actor Zach Braff and actor Natalie Portman; feature commentary with writer/director/actor Zach Braff, director of photography Lawrence Sher, editor Myron Kerstein and production designer Judy Becker; 16 deleted scenes with optional commentary by writer/director/actor Zach Braff; making-of 'Garden State'; outtakes/bloopers; soundtrack promo spot.
Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Ron Liebman, Method Man, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Jean Smart, Ann Dowd, Denis O'Hare.
Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not separated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. Her warmth and fearlessness gives Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain that is life.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Large submitted by erksnerks on June 22, 2012, 3:38pm Large goes home, meets Sam, she takes on the world with pride. Good movie.

Dated submitted by crazypockets on July 23, 2013, 12:02pm When this first came out, I absolutely loved it. But now I find it actually kind of hard to watch. Natalie Portman's character as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) is completely obnoxious. Maybe it's the fact that this movie was the catalyst setting off a string of copycat movies where a quirky girl's entire purpose in life is to teach some boring guy how to appreciate life that makes it so unbearable now. There are still some moments that make me smile, and there are some good truths in it. But maybe it's just better suited for high schoolers or people in their early 20s.

good, but dated submitted by 21621031390949 on August 14, 2016, 10:38am Touching, creative, but didn't hold up the second time.

really really lame. Portman is wasted here. submitted by Tassos on May 12, 2021, 7:21pm excruciatingly boring and lame.

Zach Braff showed he wasn't just that sitcom guy. submitted by lisa on July 27, 2022, 2:57pm Yet I agree that it doesn't hold up so well to the test of time.