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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Audio Commentary, Outtakes/Bloopers, Deleted Scenes, Making Of, English, Spanish, French Subtitled, Spanish Dubbed
Writer/Director Zach Braff delivers “an Oscar®-worthy performance” (CBS-TV Chicago) opposite a “wacky and endearing” (Newsweek) Natalie Portman in this quirky, coming-of-age comedy. Twentysomething, emotionally detached Andrew “Large” Largeman (Braff) hasn’t been home to New Jersey in nine years. Now, as Large attempts to re-connect with a variety of odd acquaintances – including his father – he decides to risk getting high on the most potent and unpredictable drug there is…life! Co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm and Method Man, Garden State is “marvelous fun” (Rolling Stone)
"...a powerful and intelligent personal story..." Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter
"...illuminates a young man's overdue coming of age with unexpected depth and grace." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | 16 Deleted Scenes W/Optional Commentary By Writer/Director/Actor Zach Braff | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Surround | | Feature Commentary With Writer/Director/Actor Zach Braff And Actor Natalie Portman | | Feature Commentary With Writer/Director/Actor Zach Braff, Director Of Photography Lawrence Sher, Editor Myron Kerstein And Production Designer Judy Becker | | Making Of Garden State | | Outtakes Bloopers | | Soundtrack promo spot | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish Dolby Digital Surround | | 16 deleted scenes with optional commentary by Writer/Director/Actor Zach Braff | | Making of Garden State | | Outtakes/Bloopers | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio commentary with Writer/Director/Actor Zach Braff, Actor Natalie Portman and Filmmakers | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 12/19/2006 |
| Running Time: 103 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 2259059 | | UPC: 00024543155881 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[W]arm and unforced..." 08/06/2004 p.59Rolling Stone
"It's a hilarious and heartfelt ode to twentysomething angst. Braff has himself a winner." 08/06/2004 p.130 USA Today
"It explores a world that is no bed of roses and in the process stumbles upon something very sweet." 08/20/2004 p.16D Los Angeles Times
"[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." 07/28/2004 p.E3 Uncut
"GARDEN STATE is an introspective, melancholy piece of slacker existentialism which rips apart occasionally to reveal belly laughs and tiny miracles." 01/01/2005 p.154 Sight and Sound
"[With] an easy-going openness, unfolding episodically at a rambling pace and presenting its most distinctive touches nonchalantly..." 01/01/2005 p.50 Premiere
"[A] modestly magical indie..." 02/01/2005 p.108 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
This is not a perfect movie; it meanders and ambles and makes puzzling detours. But it's smart and u - Roger Ebert
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