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The mister and I watched Garden State last week. He told me not to get my hopes up, but I really enjoyed it. Yeah it’s cliched, it’s not five star acting, but it’s sweet. There’s a few things that made me think. I think if you fancy something that ends up a bit feelgood, something a bit soppy, something a bit odd, then this is your movie.

Amazon Synopsis
Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman (Zach Braff of TV’s Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother’s funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he’s been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional numbness he’s felt for years, he reconnects with old friends Mark (Peter Sarsgaard), a gravedigger, and Albert (Denis O’Hare), a millionaire who invented noiseless Velcro. In a doctor’s office, he meets ebullient Sam (Natalie Portman), an epileptic whose lust for life inspires Andrew to feel things that his medication long denied him. Over four days, he develops feelings for Sam he didn’t know he was capable of, and faces up to the resentment his father holds toward him about an accident that happened long ago.