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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
Director: Jason Freeland
Reviews for Garden Party
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 2/5 |
Freeland's film offers a poor man's Los Angeles opus. Full Review |
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Their lives eventually intersect, but in more or less arbitrary ways. Full Review |
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 6/10 |
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 |
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0.5/4 |
Slow ride to nowhere. Full Review |
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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 |
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3/5 |
Oddly, halfway through when Freeland strains our credulity even further, the film finally feels fresh Full Review |
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2/5 |
A low-rent answer to Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.
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2/4 |
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 |
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C |
The characters aren't interesting, and the stories toggle between tawdry and ridiculous. Full Review |
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C- |
They're not a likeable bunch, to be sure, but the bigger problem is that there's little resonance to their stories. Full Review |
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D+ |
It's a production in search of a movie. Full Review |
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1/5 |
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 |
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1/5 |
A dreary drama about a group of selfish and amoral characters whose lives intersect in Los Angeles. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
A blandly pointless roundelay of bad acting, forgettable characters and flat drama. Full Review |
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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 |
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2/6 |
There’s neither brilliance nor bite to this look at innocence lost. Next time, go Nathanael West, young man. Full Review |
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A fatally fractured, disconnected mosaic of unappealing, marginal Hollywood types haphazardly interconnecting. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A tapestry of intersecting Hollywood lives that illuminates nothing except for writer-director Jason Freeland's obvious fondness for Short Cuts. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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 |
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