Garden State

[Ghostboy]

I saw this trailer in front of Eternal Sunshine, and its far and away the best trailer I've seen in quite a long time. Who knows if the movie will be good, since trailers are indeed tools of the devil (and like so many evils, wonderful in and of themselves). But it made me very excited.

It's not online yet, but I'm sure that when it is, this thread will have already disappeared, and someone else will start one about it and Mac or Themodernage will redirect them to this one.

[ono]

Isn't this the one that Zach Braff (Scrubs) wrote and directed?  If anything, I want to see it just to see what he can do.  He plays such an asshole on Scrubs, and he makes him likable, which is a great accomplishment.  So here's hoping this kid's got talent.  I heard this film was the talk of Sundance, too.  Or something.

[El Duderino]

yeah, i saw the trailer at spotless mind too, it looks great

[MacGuffin]

Until the trailer is available...



Release Date: July 30th, 2004 (limited release)

Cast: Zach Braff (Andrew Largeman), Natalie Portman (Samantha), Ian Holm (Gideon Largeman), Method Man, Peter Sarsgaard (Mark), Jean Smart, Geoffrey Arend (Karl Benson), Alex Burns (Dave), Aunjanue Ellis, Ato Essandoh (Titembay), Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Lubin), Rob Liebman, Jim Parsons (Tim), Armando Riesco (Jesse)

Director: Zach Braff (directorial debut of the star of TV's "Scrubs")

Screenwriter: Zach Braff (feature debut)

Premise: When Andrew Largeman (Braff) returns to his hometown in New Jersey for the first time in 10 years to attend his mother's funeral, he is reconnected with the world he left behind, and meets a girl, Samantha (Portman), who may change his life forever. Having recently stopped taking the powerful antidepressants he had been prescribed for years, Largeman's journey of self-discovery prompted by his return causes him to have a more healthy rediscovery of himself, which includes confronting his psychologist father (Holm) and helping Samantha through her own psychological issues.

[El Duderino]

natalie portman's so hot

[pete]

she used to goto harvard which is like 10 minutes from my house and would from time to time stop by the theater that I work at.  She likes tall guys and audrey tautou films, I can tell you that much.
is garden state that huge film that swept sundance?

[El Duderino]

is garden state that huge film that swept sundance?

the trailer said it was an official selection

[godardian]

Nothing to do with this, I presume...?




...wouldn't be the first time the indie film world had embraced Moody... But it looks like nothing to do with each other.

[Chest Rockwell]

I saw the trailor for this at Eternal Sunshine as well and boy does it look good. I was actually rather disappointed with the trailors for Eternal Sunshine; the only ones that looked interested were this and Door in the Floor (another Focus Feature, too). Anyhow, I'm quite interested in this one.

[SiliasRuby]

From what I read on this thread it sounds like a great movie

[Finn]

I actually saw this movie at the Ebert & Roeper film festival. I thought it was about as pretentious, preachy and dumb as a movie can be. There wasn't a shread of authenticity or laughable humor throughout the whole movie. E&R both liked it, although they had some problems with it. Most of the crowd I saw it with shared my feelings about the movie. Good trailer though.

MY ADVICE: Do not spend your money on it.

[Link]

I saw the preview last night and remember whispering to my girlfriend that I thought it was one of my favorite trailers.

[Finn]

It really is a good trailer, too bad it's for such a bad movie. It's not at all what it looks like.

[Pubrick]

It's not at all what it looks like.

no way.. i for one am FLABBERGASTED.  

[Finn]

Let me put it to you this way, notice that in the trailer there was hardly any dialouge (if any). There's a good reason for that.