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Garden Party (2008)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:2

Rotten:17

Average Rating:3.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jul 11, 2008 Limited

Starring: Tierra Abbott, Christopher Allport, Lisa Arturo, Erik Bragg

Starring: Tierra Abbott, Christopher Allport, Lisa Arturo, Erik Bragg, Candice A. Buenrostro

Director: Jason Freeland

Director: Jason Freeland
Screenwriter: Jason Freeland
Studio: Roadside Attractions

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Freeland's film offers a poor man's Los Angeles opus.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
08/08/08
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

Their lives eventually intersect, but in more or less arbitrary ways.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
07/22/08
Peter Debruge
Peter Debruge
Variety
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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.

Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review | comment Comment
07/15/08
Jeff Bayer
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

Slow ride to nowhere.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/13/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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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.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
07/11/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Cinematical

Oddly, halfway through when Freeland strains our credulity even further, the film finally feels fresh

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
07/11/08
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

A low-rent answer to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.

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07/11/08
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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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.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
07/10/08
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

The characters aren't interesting, and the stories toggle between tawdry and ridiculous.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
07/10/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

They're not a likeable bunch, to be sure, but the bigger problem is that there's little resonance to their stories.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
07/10/08
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It's a production in search of a movie.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
07/10/08
Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
AV Club

Willa Holland is the one good thing about Garden Party -- not because of her performance (which is neither good or bad) but for that nostalgia she evoked in me for young Fairuza [Balk].

Full Review Source: About.com | comment Comment
07/10/08
Marcy Dermansky
Marcy Dermansky
About.com

A dreary drama about a group of selfish and amoral characters whose lives intersect in Los Angeles.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
07/10/08
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

A blandly pointless roundelay of bad acting, forgettable characters and flat drama.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
07/10/08
Geoff Berkshire
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/10/08
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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There’s neither brilliance nor bite to this look at innocence lost. Next time, go Nathanael West, young man.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
07/09/08
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

A fatally fractured, disconnected mosaic of unappealing, marginal Hollywood types haphazardly interconnecting.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment 1 Comment
07/09/08
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

A tapestry of intersecting Hollywood lives that illuminates nothing except for writer-director Jason Freeland's obvious fondness for Short Cuts.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/07/08
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Not exactly a feelgood drama, but nonetheless an eye-opening peek at the ugly underbelly of a merciless metropolis that could care less about the fate of the least of its brethren.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
07/06/08
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze
 
 
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