Genius.

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2004)

This movie smacks of charisma and plain old small town hi-jinks. Anyone from a small town will relate to the concept of "making your own adventure."
This movie demonstrates, with skill, the joy found in the small things, the small connections that we make with people. It is now in my top five of all time. It seems that movies these days have gotten so fake and so processed. Braff brilliantly dodged the norm and took risks with absurdist comedy that few directors are willing to take these days. Some of the grief issues dealt with in Garden State reminded me of what should have happened in the movie Moonlight Mile. Overall I have to laud this piece of art as genius, pure and simple.