Garden State (2004)

Andrew Large (Zach Braff) keert terug naar zijn familie om ze bij de begrafenis van zijn moeder bij te staan. Hij wordt weer opgenomen in de wereld die hij al lang achter had gelaten en hem depressief maakte. Na lange tijd antidepressiva te hebben genomen stopt hij hiermee. Dit omdat hij Samantha (Natalie Portman) ontmoet en zij een natuurlijker middel tegen zijn somberheid vormt.

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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 Andre...
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w 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.
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