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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Zach Braff
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Actors:
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Zach Braff,
Christopher Carley,
George C. Wolfe,
Jill Flint,
Amy Ferguson,
Jackie Hoffman,
Trisha LaFache,
Kenneth Graymez,
Gary Gilbert,
Austin Lysy,
Ian Holm,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Alex Burns,
Michael Weston,
Armando Riesco
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)129.5
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Plot Summary:
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Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his protect's cessation inspired a vacation from the pills to take what might find. A fairly well-heeled TV actor living in Los Angeles, ''Large'' hasn't been retreat to the ''Garden Phase'' in nine years. But honest with 3,000 miles between them, he's been not able to escape his imperious forefather Gideon (Sir Ian Holm) and the silencing tenor he's had on his son from afar.
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Garden State
A depressed young man returns to his hometown after a nine-year absence to attend his mother's funeral. Comedy-drama starring Natalie Portman and Ian Holm and written and directed by leading man Zach Braff
Having been one of the best things in offbeat US hospital comedy 'Scrubs', Zach Braff makes the logical transition to movie acting. But while the desire to front a feature film is understandable, the fact that Braff wrote and directed Garden State never having tried his hand at either discipline smacks of wild ambition and/or rampant egotism. Rather than the emetic vanity project some feared, Braff's film is in fact a wonderfully understated film about the complexities of life and love, and the bizarre delights of New Jersey, the Garden State of the title.
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State of Mind
I loved this film and went to see it twice in the cinema. If you know Zach Braff from Scrubs prepare for a marked change of pace. It is slow and still and sexy and sweet by turns - with much to smile at and a few satisfying belly-laughs.
A great soundtrack and some nice visual one-liners. I would say one of the top five of 2004.
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