Maybe it is not always good to go home again.

Rating: 1/10 (1 January 2006)

Don't make me sit thought this again. Andrew Largeman(Zach Braff)is a struggling actor living in a lithium daze for nine years since causing injury to his mother...who has recently died in a freak accident. Largeman returns home for the funeral, where he tries to avoid his domineering father(Ian Holm)and reunites with some shiftless high school buddies, including gravedigger Mark(Peter Sarsgaard). The bright spot is the chance meeting with a free spirit named Sam(Natalie Portman)that somehow helps him sort out his uninvigorated life.
Braff, who wrote and directed GARDEN STATE, impresses me very little. On the other hand, Portman is stellar. Also in the cast: Jean Smart, Alex Burns and Michael Weston. Quirky, auspicious and aimlessly confusing. Much-to-do-about squat.