I love this movie (and Zach Braff...)

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2005)

"Garden State" is absolutely (now, I am trying very hard not to be too cheesy) amazing! I fall into the eighteen to twenty-five age range, and I have to say that this movie depicts what life is today for the aforementioned age category perfectly. Zach Braff captured the confusion and just plain craziness of life for us kids born in the early to mid-eighties in such a poignant (and comical) fashion that it made the movie so full of heart. When watching the movie, I could tell that Braff worked extremely hard on the screenplay. Plus, how can you not love his gigantic smile?
Also notable are the performances of Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm and the entire cast...they are all to be commended. The characters they played resemble (maybe not exactly, but close) people who are near and dear to us in our own lives and although their stories may not be exactly like the ones seen in "Garden State," they still provide life lessons and that was what the whole movie was about...life.
For those of you who bashed the movie and said it was "doody," give it another try. Life isn't scripted...and I think you can use a better word than "doody" when describing something you don't care for.