Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's SCRUBS) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional numbness he's felt for years, he reconnects with old friends Mark (Peter Sarsgaard), a gravedigger, and Albert (Denis O'Hare), a millionaire who invented noiseless Velcro. In a doctor's office, he meets ebullient Sam (Natalie Portman), an epileptic whose lust for life inspires Andrew to feel things that his medication long denied him. Over four days, he develops feelings for Sam he didn't know he was capable of, and faces up to the resentment his father holds toward him about an accident that happened long ago.
Writer, director, and star Zach Braff makes his debut feature with this off-kilter, unusually smart, self-assured coming-of-age film. GARDEN STATE has a knack for sharp-edged humor, character quirks, and finding lovely imagery within the mundanity of the suburbs. These things combined are abundant evidence to indicate that Braff's filmmaking future is filled with limitless promise.
DVD Features:
Region 1
NTSC
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
Making Of
Bloopers: Blooper Reel
Audio Commentary:
1. Zach Braff - Director
2. Lawrence Sher - Director of Photography
3. Myron Kerstein - Editor
4. Judy Becker - Production Designer
Stars
Zach Braff: American actor, director, SCRUBS
Natalie Portman: Actress/"Professional"
Ian Holm: British actor, THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001)
Peter Sarsgaard:
Ron Leibman: American Actor
Method Man: Hip Hop Artist: ENTER THE WU-TANG CLAN: 36 CHAMBERS
Jean Smart: American TV Actress, DESIGNING WOMEN
Ann Dowd: Supporting TV Actress
Denis O'Hare: Actor, ANNIVERSARY PARTY (2001)
Geoffrey Arend: Star, BUBBLE BOY (2001)
Jackie Hoffman: Actress, KISSING JESSICA STEIN (2001)
Director
Zach Braff: American actor, director, SCRUBS
Producer
Pamela Abdy: Executive Producer, HOW HIGH (2001)
Dan Halsted:
Gary Gilbert: Producer, GARDEN STATE (2004)
Richard Klubeck: Producer, GARDEN STATE (2004)
Screenwriter
Zach Braff: American actor, director, SCRUBS
Composer
Chad Fischer: Composer, GARDEN STATE (2004)
Executive Producer
Danny DeVito: American actor/director, HOFFA (1992)
Executive Producer
Michael Shamberg:
Executive Producer
Stacey Sher:
Director of Photography
Larry Sher:
Review 1:
"It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst. Braff has himself a winner."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.130 08/06/2004
Review 2:
"It explores a world that is no bed of roses and in the process stumbles upon something very sweet."
Source: USA Today
p.16D 08/20/2004
Review 3:
"[A] deceptively quirky take on the homecoming comedy that gradually and deftly deepens to end on a note of redemption marked by a bracing largeness of spirit and acceptance."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.E3 07/28/2004
Review 4:
"GARDEN STATE is an introspective, melancholy piece of slacker existentialism which rips apart occasionally to reveal belly laughs and tiny miracles."
Source: Uncut
p.154 01/01/2005
Review 5:
"[With] an easy-going openness, unfolding episodically at a rambling pace and presenting its most distinctive touches nonchalantly..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.50 01/01/2005
Review 6:
"[A] modestly magical indie..."
Source: Premiere
p.108 02/01/2005
Review 7:
"[W]arm and unforced..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.59 08/06/2004
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