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7.4
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Cast & Crew

Zach Braff
As Andrew Largeman
Zach Braff
Director
Ian Holm
As Gideon Largeman
Jean Smart
As Carol
Method Man
As Diego
Denis O'Hare
As Albert

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Garden State is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Zach Braff. The film follows Andrew Largeman (played by Braff), a struggling young actor who returns to his hometown in New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Andrew, who has been heavily medicated for years, decides to stop taking his antidepressants and begins to reconnect with his past friends and himself. He also meets Sam (played by Natalie Portman), an eccentric epileptic with a penchant for compulsive lying, who opens up new possibilities for emotional attachment and confronting his psychologist father. The film explores themes of identity, family, friendship, love, and the search for meaning in life.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Garden State include Blast from the Past, No Reservations, New York, I Love You, Good Bye Lenin!, High Fidelity, Varsity Blues.

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Garden State was released in theaters on August 20, 2004.