Garden Party
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- Synopsis
- Filmmaker Jason Freeland draws inspiration from the eponymous song for this tale of five lost souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles....
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- Starring
- Vinessa Shaw, Willa Holland, Richard Gunn, Patrick Fischler, Fiona Dourif
- Director(s)
- Jason Freeland
- Distributor(s)
- Roadside Attractions
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 90 min.
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Critic Reviews
Although competently acted and directed, lacks a fresh point of view and its people lack individuality.Read the full review
Isn't racy enough to warrant the word of mouth necessary to make pic a sensation with its generation, the way the unrelated disaffected-twentysomething hit "Garden State" was.Read the full review
Whatever else it may accomplish, Garden Party, which is clumsily structured but well acted, with pungently realistic dialogue, puts you in a world without a center in which you can't tell upside down from right-side up.Read the full review
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07/10/08 One of the major pitfalls of the everything-is-connected ensemble drama is that filmmakers get so caught up in how the various character and plot strands intertwine that they forget to account for why. | The A.V. Club -
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07/10/08 Where Paul Haggis' "Crash" found touch-deprived Angelenos striving for contact via auto collisions, "Garden Party's" City of Angels ensemble favors the old-fashioned bump and grind. | Variety -
REVIEW | Los Angeles Plays With Itself: Jason Freeland's "Garden Party"
07/08/08 Whatever the reason, director Jason Freeland feels the need to try his hand at this subgenre, tackling, in only his second feature, a sprawling study of a pack of tangentially related young people trying to make it in Los Angeles, all either exploiters or the exploited. | indieWIRE