Notes: | Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2003. Special features: Commentary by writer/director/actor Zach Braff and actor Natalie Portman [optional audio feature]; Commentary by writer/director/actor Zach Braff, director of photography Lawrence Sher, editor Myron Kerstein and production designer Judy Becker [optional audio feature]; Deleted scenes with optional commentary by writer/director/actor Zach Braff, director of photography Lawrence Sher, editor Myron Kerstein and production designer Judy Becker (32 min.); The making-of 'Garden State' [featurette] (29 min.); Outtakes/bloopers (3 min.); Soundtrack promo spot (30 sec.); Searchlight Features [trailer] (2 min.). Director of photography, Lawrence Sher ; editor, Myron Kerstein ; original music by Chad Fischer ; production designer, Judy Becker ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson. Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Ron Liebman, Method Man, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Jean Smart, Ann Dowd, Denis O'Hare, Geoffrey Arend, Alex Burns, Jackie Hoffman, Armando Riesco. DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital surround; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 2:35.1. In English or dubbed Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed-captioned.
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Summary: | Andrew Largeman returns from self-imposed exile in Los Angeles to his hometown in New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Andrew has spent years cut off from his darker feelings with the aid of pharmaceuticals prescribed by his father, Gideon, a coldly formal psychiatrist. Afterward, he takes to tooling around on his antique motorcycle, finding old friends and making new ones. When he meets and begins to fall for Sam, he finds himself slowly awaking not only to the pain of life but also to the life-affirming power of love.
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