Garden State

For a writer-director who has spent the last three years portraying the neurotic John Dorian in Bill Lawrence's brilliant TV-series Scrubs, Zach Braff surpasses all expectations with his directorial debut Garden State. His imaginative style demonstrates a remarkable control of tone and balance between the light and dark sides of the movie.
Braff himself plays the lead as Andrew Largeman, a struggling young actor who hasn't been home to New Jersey in nine years. When his mother suddenly dies, he finally returns to his father, a psychologist, who has had him pumped on pills since the age of ten, and to old acquaintances and memories he thought he'd
put behind him. Andrew also meets the innocent liar Sam, whom he falls head over heels for.
Braff depicts the couple's budding romance exactly as any good romantic comedy should treat the process, with all of its tentative fumbling. He also manages to walk the tightrope between the serious and the humorous with an accuracy worthy of Wes Anderson. With a unique and incredibly beautiful imagery, Garden State is one of the best movies of the year, maybe even the millennium - and Zach Braff hasn't even turned 30.

MATTIAS DAHLSTRÖM

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart, Rob Leibman: Producent
Pam Abdy, Richard Klubeck, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted: Manus
Zach Braff: Foto
Lawrence Sher: Musik
Chad Fisher: Talat språk
English