Garden State

(2004)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 2,113 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 2004

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Зак Брафф

Cast: Зак Брафф, Натали Портман, Иэн Холм, Питер Сарсгаард, Джин Смарт, Armando Riesco, Джеки Хоффман, Метод Мэн, Алекс Бёрнс, Рон Либман

Plot

Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, a journey that reconnects him with old friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam—a girl also struggling with various maladies—opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional connections, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.

Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays an intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair-bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and his doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own.