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Garden State/Me and You and Everyone We Know [2 Discs] - DVD

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Rating: R
Format: DVD
Length: 194 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1/1.85:1

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Garden State (2004), MPAA Rating: R

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004), MPAA Rating: R

Garden State
In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew returns to the town in which he grew up, where he is greeted by his father, Gideon (Ian Holm), a psychiatrist. In addition to mourning the loss of his mother, Andrew is also attempting to adjust to life without the emotionally numbing antidepressants that he has recently opted to discontinue using. Gradually, with the absence of the pills, his reconnection with his past, and the introduction of Sam (Natalie Portman), a woman who would seem to have little in common with him, into his life, Andrew is able to see the potential for some positive changes. Also starring Jean Smart and Peter Sarsgaard, Garden State was once titled Large's Ark and premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Me and You and Everyone We Know
A handful of disparate characters, both adults and children, find themselves navigating the tricky waters of intimacy in this award-winning independent comedy drama. Richard (John Hawkes) is a recent divorc� who is alternately exhilarated and terrified with his life and the world around him. While he believes great things are in store for him, he's also become so despondent about his wife's departure that he attempts to set his hand on fire. Richard meets Christine (Miranda July) at the shoe store where he works; Christine likes to paint a picture of herself as a stylish and confident video artist, but in truth she supports herself as a driver with a car service for the elderly, and she'd very much like to meet someone special. As Richard and Christine fumble their way into a relationship, Richard's two sons have issues of their own. Seven-year-old Robby (Brandon Ratcliff) has met someone in an Internet chat room who responds to his na�ve and scatological perceptions of sex, while 14-year-old Peter (Miles Thompson) finds himself on the receiving end of unusual and unexpected attention from two girls in his class. Me and You and Everyone We Know was the first feature film written and directed by noted performance artist Miranda July; the picture won prizes in 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Spa

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng/Spa/Fre

Additional Features

Garden State: Audio Commentaries by writer/director/actor Zach Braff, actor Natalie Portman and filmmakers Outtakes and bloopers 16 deleted scenes Making-of featurette Me and You and Everyone We Know: Deleted scenes

Chapters

Disc #1 -- Garden State
1. Andrew (Main Titles)
2. Welcome Home
3. Kenny the Cop
4. Mark's Party
5. Breakfast With Mom
6. Being Unimpressive
7. Sam
8. Off the Meds
9. A Ride Home
10. Sam's House
11. Burying the Hamster
12. The Skating Alligator
13. Laughing and Crying
14. The Idea of Home
15. Dangerous
16. Handi-World
17. Diego
18. Albert's Ark
19. The Infinite Abyss
20. The Goodbye Gift
21. Safe
22. To Feel Again
23. Something Really Big
24. End Titles
Disc #2 -- Me and You and Everyone We Know
1. Start [7:12]
2. Good Shoes & Dead Fish [5:28]
3. Mail-In Art [4:22]
4. Talking Dirty [5:26]
5. Back and Forth [3:59]
6. Past the Halfway Point [9:40]
7. Blind Test [8:46]
8. Separation Anxiety [6:06]
9. Part of a Community [8:20]
10. "Did You Love It?" [12:28]
11. A Future With Children [7:55]
12. A Good Fit [11:43]

Garden State/Me and You and Everyone We Know: AMG Review
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Garden State (2004), MPAA Rating: R

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004), MPAA Rating: R

Garden State
A sort of The Graduate-lite, the directorial debut of actor and former film-school student Zach Braff is a little too strident in its efforts to reach for cinematic relevance, but it's also ultimately a moving comedy drama that skillfully renders a generation's grudging acceptance of its own thwarted yearnings and subsequent frustration. Andrew Largeman (Braff) and his buddies are casual about everything -- death, drug abuse, rejection, love. Even their rage seems muted, spent, and running on fumes. Garden State asserts that such ennui has its yin and yang, that it allows for a certain bemused detachment from life, but that its price (disconnection from other humans) is probably too high. It's a marvelously self-assured tone and message, impressively aware from a first-time writer/director. Braff also displays great skill with his cast, eliciting superb performances from Natalie Portman and the reliable Peter Sarsgaard. Not to call it a perfect film: interesting characters appear once and then never again, for no particular reason other than injecting self-conscious quirkiness, and the style sometimes overwhelms the content as the filmmaker reaches, clumsy and ham-fisted, for auteur status with over-thought shots and techniques. There's enough substance in Garden State, however, to inspire confidence in Braff as a creative force and anticipation for his next project behind the camera. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Me and You and Everyone We Know
Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know is a small film, modestly scaled and full of moments that aim for poetic profundity but sometimes wind up closer to preciousness -- an adjective that can be either damning or complimentary depending on one's outlook. July has a good feel for odd rhythms in people, in speech, and in editing. There is a cultivated "otherness" to the film that is consistently inviting, even when the material occasionally gets to be too cute by half -- or even three-quarters. John Hawkes gives the best performance in the film, finding a way to make his character, Richard, suffer the consequences of not being like the average person while never asking for sympathy from the audience. He has been emotionally bruised by a society that does not understand him when he expresses himself. It fits that he would fall in love with Christine, played by July, an artist who has a difficult time getting her work shown for the same reason -- most people just don't "get" her. The supporting characters all contend with the same problem about how to make connections when everyone seems disassociated either because of sexual desires, technology, or simple quirkiness. If the film pumped itself up more, asserting directly that it had something important or profound to say, it would fall apart. July's light approach may strike some viewers as too aggressively twee, but for those who get into her rhythms Me and You and Everyone We Know works as a small ode to understanding. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Slight, and slightly precious, this wide-eyed indie cross-pollinates the romantic comedy with the offbeat ensemble drama. Whether the results seem like Robert Altman lite or a more profound When Harry Met Sally depends upon the sensibilities of the viewer. Writing and directing her first feature, video artist Miranda July grapples with the terror and exhilaration of human interaction: love, sex, companionship, and fate. These characters -- including July's own Christine, the aspiring artist whose tentative romance frames the story -- rarely understand their own needs, let alone each other's. Their lives intersect, often in unexpected ways, yet fear and misunderstanding usually threaten any lasting connection. As a filmmaker, July favors episodes over arcs and wry chuckles over belly laughs. As a performer, she proves compellingly ethereal: evocative where she could have settled for quirky shtick. Ditto for John Hawkes, of Deadwood fame, who provides a winsome variation on the sort of wounded man-child who pops up in any number of features at Sundance every year. Really, there's not a bad performance to be found anywhere in the film. It's the overall tone that's as likely to annoy as enchant. July makes judicious use of talented composer Michael Andrews, whose previous credits include Donnie Darko and TV's Wonderfalls. His compositions help sustain the mood of ramshackle momentum and the moments of sudden, tenuous transcendence. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

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