Garden State is a comedy, but as Braff’s co-star Natalie Portman observes, “It also has a heart. A lot of funny stuff these days is so cynical, but there’s nothing cynical about this movie. It’s untraditional and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. That’s what made it exciting.” In a larger sense, the film is…
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Garden State (2004)
A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, “Large” hasn’t been home to the “Garden State” in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he’s been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon (Sir Ian Holm) and the silencing effect he’s had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in…