excellent performances, bizarre wit winning moments

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2006)

Garden State is a great movie, full of bizarre wit and winning moments, laden with excellent performances and even a few good-natured morals. It recalls the great "early" rom-comas of Woody Allen or Rob Reiner; it showcases Zach Braff and Natalie Portman as two entirely lovable personalities; it gives the fantastic Peter Sarsgaard and the wonderful Ian Holm a few choice scenes to steal. Garden State has a warm heart and an acerbic disposition. It's romantic and nostalgic and periodically quite weird.
So in closing, SEE IT! It was one of the best movies made that year and I'm surprised it didn't get recognition from other, major, award shows.