The Indie Film To End All Indie Films

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2015)

A quietly troubled young man (Zach Braff) returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
This film hit a generation hard and was in no small way responsible for popularizing indie music, with the Shins in particular. Soundtracks with Shins, the Bravery and more started floating around. Thanks, Zach Braff, you single-handedly changed the music industry.
Interestingly, this film features Jim Parsons before his big break. Not that his role is huge, but it is big enough that anyone watching today (2015) will recognize him as Sheldon (and probably not much else).
And this was back before Natalie Portman switched from fun films to critically acclaimed work. She does both very well.