After my rant on Monday, I bit the bullet and ventured over to Buckhead/Lenox to see Garden State last night, only to find out it’s went on a larger release today, dammit!
Anyways, It was well worth the journey to see it as its a great film.
It’s a story about Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff), a budding actor in LA, who comes back to his childhood home for the first time in 9 years after his mother dies. While having been gone, Andrew has been on lithium and other forms of anti-depressant medication all prescribed to him by his psychiatrist father Gideon (Ian Holm). Upon his homecoming Andrew has decided to take a vacation from his medication and take some time to re-connect with himself, there he meets up with an old friend (Peter Sarsgaard), finds other friends doing remarkably different things and he also meets Sam (Natalie Portman) during the few days he’s back.
It’s a strange movie, written and directed by Braff, who’s better known for his part as Dr. John Dorian in TV’s comedy “Scrubs,” it’s part dark comedy, part coming of age, intensely moving. Overall, impressive… And now it’s on a wider release, do yourself a favour and go see it.
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I’ve liked the look of this movie for a while now, I thought the Zack Braff blog to go along with its release was a nice touch too.
Now that it’s gone on general release stateside that seems a pretty good indicator its coming over to the UK. I’ll definatly check it out when or if it’s released, especially now you’ve recomended it :)