Editor Reviews:

Description:
Writer/Director Zach Braff delivers ?an Oscar®-worthy performance? (CBS-TV Chicago) opposite a ?wacky and endearing? (Newsweek) Natalie Portman in this quirky, coming-of-age comedy. Twentysomething, emotionally detached Andrew ?Large? Largeman (Braff) hasn?t been home to New Jersey in nine years. Now, as Large attempts to re-connect with a variety of odd acquaintances ? including his father ? he decides to risk getting high on the most potent and unpredictable drug there is?life! Co-starring Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm and Method Man, Garden State is ?marvelous fun? (Rolling Stone)

Amazon.com:
Zach Braff (from the TV show Scrubs) stars in his writing/directing debut, Garden State--normally a doomed act of hubris, but Braff pulls it off with unassuming charm. An emotionally numb actor in L.A., Andrew (Braff) comes back to New Jersey after nine years away for his mother's funeral. Andrew avoids his bitter father (Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter) and joins old friends (including the superb Peter Sarsgaard, Boys Don't Cry) in a round of parties. Along the way he meets a girl (Natalie Portman, Beautiful Girls) with demons of her own; bit by bit the two offer each other a little healing. Plotwise, Garden State is familiar stuff, a cross between The Graduate and a Meg Ryan movie, but Braff has an eye for goofy but resonant visual images, an ear for lively dialogue, and a great cast. The result is surprisingly fresh and funny. --Bret Fetzer

Rating : - If I could, I'd give it 10 stars...
I absolutely LOVE this movie. If I were asked to named my current favorite movie, it has to be this film.
The music, the mood of the entire movie, the humor, it all works beautifully. Zach Braff did a wonderful job with this picture. He wrote, directed, and starred in this and that is an amazing accomplishment, especially when the outcome is a film as beautiful as this is.
I love it. LOVE IT.