La mia vita a Garden State

Titolo originale: Garden State
Regia: Zach Braff |
Anno: 2004
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma Romance
Tag: depression | new jersey | unsociability | paraplegic | expensive restaurant | loss of loved one | pop culture | difficult childhood | ecstasy | strangeness | epilepsy | lethargy | answering machine | single | marijuana | los angeles, california | psychiatrist | grave digger |
Cast: Zach Braff | Natalie Portman | Ian Holm | Peter Sarsgaard | Jean Smart | Armando Riesco | Jackie Hoffman | Method Man | Alex Burns | Ron Leibman | Jim Parsons | Michael Weston | Ann Dowd | Ato Essandoh | Denis O'Hare | Trisha LaFache | Geoffrey Arend | George C. Wolfe | Austin Lysy | Gary Gilbert | Jill Flint | Christopher Carley | Amy Ferguson | Wynter Kullman | Debbon Ayer | Yvette Mercedes | Jayne Houdyshell | Soara-Joye Ross | Joe Bacino | Seth Michael May | Kenneth Graymez | Ryan B. Moschetti | Tracey Antosiweicz | Ice | Magoo | Janine Strafaci | Kurt Siegelin |

Andrew torna a casa, a Garden State, per il funerale della madre, dopo esservi mancato da 9 anni. Inevitabile il reincontro con i vecchi amici, le vecchie strade e, soprattutto, il confronto con il padre, oltre alla conoscenza di una ragazza interessante: Sam.

Approfondimenti

The first public screening was at a benefit in Detroit for a charity working with mentally challenge [...] D
Natalie Portman was the only member of the cast to wear a safety harness on the crane in the quarry. [...] D
The tombstones in the pet cemetery were made by the cast and crew, and feature their own deceased pe [...] D
In the scenes where Andrew, Mark, and Sam are walking together, Natalie Portman had a hard time keep [...] D
The classical piece Mark is playing on the guitar in his room is "Adelita" by Francisco Tárrega. [...] D
Zach Braff's directorial debut. D
On the DVD commentary, Zach Braff says that there were only three sets used when filming. Everything [...] D
In order to get the automatic sinks in the airport bathroom to go off when Zach Braff walked by them [...] D
The house used as Jesse's (Armando Riesco's) mansion is Crocker Mansion, a real mansion in Mahwah, N [...] D
During the swimming pool scene (when Andrew cannot swim), the fog was not there for effect. The site [...] D
Production had three cars slow down in each lane to ten miles per hours on I-405 to create the essen [...] D
From 2004 to 2010, Disney owned the international rights to the film as owners of Miramax. Disney so [...] D
Gary Gilbert, a former mortgage banker, financed this movie with $2.5 million of his own money. At S [...] D
The final scenes were shot in Terminal 4 at JFK International Airport in New York City. Production w [...] D
The depiction of Zach Braff's character working in a Vietnamese restaurant was from his own experien [...] D
Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard appeared in Jackie (2016). D
Jill Flint and Jenna Willis's debut. D
Natalie Portman was so embarrassed about the tap dancing scene that she made Zach Braff promise if i [...] D
In one scene, Largeman exits his car and is surprised to see a broken gas pump handle sticking out o [...] D
It took two days for set design to piece together the hamster habitat in Sam's house. D
On the commentary track, Natalie Portman admits she had never handled a vinyl record before making t [...] D
The only songs that do not appear on the soundtrack are "Orange Sky" by Alexi Murdoch, because the r [...] D
It was raining in every scene shot outdoors. Zach Braff described the weather as unusual in the DVD [...] D
Michael Weston (Kenny) appeared on season six of Scrubs (2001) in 2006, with Zach Braff as the brain [...] D
While filming the funeral scenes, most of the extras were Orthodox Jews, and prevented the crew from [...] D
Natalie Portman was writer and director Zach Braff's first choice for the role of Sam, but he never [...] D
Zach Braff held meat in his hands to get the Dobermans to attack him at the front door of Sam's (Nat [...] D
Zach Braff wrote the majority of the script while he was in college, and originally titled it "Large [...] D
Noise pollution was an issue throughout the neighborhood scenes. Zach Braff stated in the DVD commen [...] D
Tim (Jim Parsons), the knight armor-donning nerd, speaks the fictional language Klingon from the Sta [...] D
Zach Braff drew partially on knowledge from his mother, a psychologist, his stepfather, also a psych [...] D
Michael Weston appeared in an episode of Scrubs that starred Zach Braff. D
The depiction of Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff) working in a Vietnamese restaurant was from Braff's ow [...] D
Based partly on Zach Braff's own childhood in New Jersey, as well as his days as a struggling actor [...] D
When Zach Braff sent the script to people, he would also send them a copy of the songs which would e [...] D
Rapper J. Cole listed this as his favorite movie. D
Producer Gary Gilbert and his brother Dan Gilbert started a mortgage company named Rock, but Gary Gi [...] D
Zach Braff had to give a testimonial to JFK International Airport in order to film there. His testim [...] D
The movie was released on Wednesday, July 28, 2004, to eight theaters: three in Los Angeles, four in [...] D
The cue for the seeing-eye dog to mount was, "Love 'em up", while the cue for the dog to start humpi [...] D
The headphones Natalie Portman was wearing, are Aiwa HP-X223. D
Zach Braff is in every scene. D
Sam (Natalie Portman) says she works at a law office, but in Andrew's four-day visit, you never see [...] D
Writer and director Zach Braff chose to not include a full love scene between him and Natalie Portma [...] D
The motorcycle is a Ukrainian Dnepr. D
The high school to which Andrew asks Sam if she went, Columbia High, is the name of the high school [...] D
Musician Joshua Radin appears as one of the party-goers trying to have Andrew smoke a joint. In real [...] D
At the funeral, there is a picture of Andrew's mother on display. The woman in the picture is Diane [...] D
The music during the airplane scene is from a Ganesh alarm clock. The words are a prayer song to the [...] D
Soara-Joye Ross and Amy Ferguson's debut. D
The bird that can be heard singing in the background during the hamster burial scene is a cardinal. D
In the background dialogue at the gravesite, a character is trying to remember the name of the autho [...] D
The fog in the pool scene was real fog. Zach Braff and Natalie Portman described it as filming in a [...] D
In the Vietnamese restaurant scene, the main guy who Andrew waits on is played by Gary Gilbert, the [...] D
Peter Sarsgaard learned to play guitar for this movie. D
Method Man was nervous about saying "titties" in front of Natalie Portman. D
Borrows some of its basic plot from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, including the premise of a de [...] D
The "helmet" that Sam (Natalie Portman) is wearing on the motorcycle is actually a Rugby scrum-cap. D
Sam's dead hamster, Jelly, was a real taxidermied hamster. D
The Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles in the beginning is actually a Thai restaurant - Sea in Wil [...] D