Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Garden State

Zach Braff. Need I say more? Dynamic, actor, director and a screenwriter to boot. Unstopable. This is the perfect movie to offset his zandy characted, JD, on Scrubs. Zach plays a over-drugged 20-something who goes home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral. "Largeman" is his last name, his friends just call him "Large". He meets quirkly Natalie Portman and the dialogue between the two is memorable and often moving. So are the moments of life that he recalls and shares with the characters on screen and with us. We get to know Largeman and love that he learns to love himself and un-ideally gets us to agree that emotions are worth feeling and experiencing- happy or painful. That's what life is.

Check out this movie. It's a great date movie even if your man is largely into pure entertainment movies without a real story line. It has drugs, sex, strange experiences and it's as funny as you always thought real life could be.

Worth the money rating: $$$$$

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