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Garden Party
Set in Los Angeles, the film tells the story of 15-year-old April (Willa Holland) who falls in with a group of other teens who are trying to fulfill their dreams. The black widow in the web is the sexy, pot-dealing Sally.
25 February 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
15 August 1974, Texarkana, Arkansas, USA
10 September 1986, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
17 June 1947, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 August 1974, Los Angeles County, California, USA
19 July 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 January 1977, Dover, Kent, England, UK
29 February 1984, Greenville, Ohio, USA
3 October 1988, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 July 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 June 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 December 1978, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
20 February 1985, Van Nuys, California, USA
14 June 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 November 1994, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
30 October 1981, Woodstock, New York, USA
July 11, 2008
Sophomore writer/director Freeland doesn't quite feel like the host of this particular "garden party," but rather like the party's Sabrina, secretly spying from the sidelines.
July 13, 2008
Slow ride to nowhere.
July 10, 2008
If we're meant to take these threads as a tapestry of L.A., then Freeland clearly needs to stop watching Robert Altman DVDs and go outside to see what the real world is actually like.
July 10, 2008
A bit like Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), taking a look at a cross-section of Los Angeles characters, though it runs less than half the length and, conversely, half the depth.
August 08, 2008
Freeland's film offers a poor man's Los Angeles opus.
July 22, 2008
Their lives eventually intersect, but in more or less arbitrary ways.
July 11, 2008
Oddly, halfway through when Freeland strains our credulity even further, the film finally feels fresh
July 15, 2008
This ensemble piece works if you know Los Angeles. After all, it's very possible for a homeless kid, pot-smoking Realtor, young model and a number of perverts to cross paths in that town.
July 10, 2008
The result is a movie impossible to pigeonhole and one even more difficult to describe, and to say there hasn't been anything else quite like it this year certainly wouldn't be a lie.
July 10, 2008
It's a production in search of a movie.
July 10, 2008
The characters aren't interesting, and the stories toggle between tawdry and ridiculous.
July 11, 2008
A low-rent answer to Robert Altmanâ(TM)s Short Cuts.
