Friday, July 15, 2005

Garden State

Zach Braff wrote, directed, and stars in a fresh look at staleness. The young Ray Ramano clone plays a character named Andrew Largemen, a depressed & pill-filled young actor, who comes home from LA to attend his mother's funeral. There he finds most of his old friends in seemingly meaningless existences as well. It's a pretty miserable world until he meets Sam (Natalie Portman).

As soon as Sam enters the picture Andrew's life begins to regain its long-lost color. The rest of the movie is filled with interesting characters, Portman's cuteness, and a quest for the meaning of life. The best thing about this movie, however, is the realistic dialogue. A lot of the conversation was familiar to me, very down-to-earth. The movie kinda peaks in the middle, but has a good ending. The commentary (Braff & Portman) is worth a listen as well.

Rating: 8.1
Status: Must Own

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

'tis a good movie. i like it (and own it :D )

steph

matthew said...

I'm glad you own, b/c you MUST

But only by 0.1 :)

Richards' said...

I had never heard of it! I miss BBC movie nights....

matthew said...

well, im sure it's rated R, so you would have never been able to see it there anyways :)