Sunday, February 27, 2005

Sweet little movie, Garden State. And Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have got nothing on Zach Braff for script writing - Braff also directed his movie and played the lead. My opinion is that Braff’s screenplay is superior to Good Will Hunting.

***pausing for a second, because I’m writing this while listening to Chris Rock’s opening monologue at the Oscars™ and I’m thisclose to turning it off because of his comments about The Passion of the Christ.***

Back to my review ...

In a nutshell, Garden State is about Andrew Largeman’s (played by Braff) return home for his mother’s funeral. He hasn’t been home in nine years.

Without giving any spoilers we learn about Largeman’s childhood, meet his childhood friends, meet (along with Large) a girl, see interesting family dynamics, and get to the heart of who Large is - who he wants to be. It’s about forgiveness and love and how difficult both are to attain or give.

I really like this movie. It’s not for everyone and it has much profanity and recreational drug use throughout, but the heart of the story grabbed me.

Garden State gets 3 stars out of 5.

No review from Jared this time. I’m surprised he doesn’t have one. This is a Jared type of movie.