Go and see Garden State!

It's a really cool movie by Zach Braff (Scrubs guy) about a guy who's been on lithium since he was ten, to surpress bad memories, who has to return home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral. He decides to try not taking the drugs, and for once in his life isn't numb. This movie shows his reunions with old friends, new friendships blah blah blah, but is really worth seeing. It's Braff's first film - does a bit of an Orson Welles and wrote, directed and stars in it, but it has a refreshing newness - none of the old '*sigh* the 20th time i have to direct the same plot with subtle differences' feel. It has a good mixture of comedy and sadness and drama and all that, and there is no sense of 'well it's worked before, so lets do it again'. I really enjoyed this film, although did think it was little slow to start, but that could be intentional, to show the lithium induced numbness of Andrew Largeman. Natalie Portman also stars in this, as Sam the compulsive liar who help Andrew along. Bilbo is also in it, see if you can spot him! (I spent most of the movie trying to work out where I knew him from, wasn't until i saw the 'assistant to' list that I realised!)

Garden State

Go and see it, on at the State at the moment, or wait for it to come out on dvd or whatever, just see it at some stage!!!