Garden State

When Mark, Andrew, and Sam are walking through the "backrooms" of the hotel, we see a man get out of their way by ducking behind a soda machine on the right-hand side.

In the next shot, the man has disappeared.

As Andrew is lying in his bed listening to his father's answering machine message, the wrinkles in his shirt change between shots.

In the first shot of the phone in Andrew's bedroom, the antennas are down.

In the next (wide) shot, the are both up.

In the pool scene when everyone (except for Andrew) jumps into the pool, everyone emerges from the water during the wide shot, including Sam.

However, on the next close-up of Sam it shows her still underwater, before submerging.

When Andrew goes into his father's bedroom and wakes him up to talk, his father puts on his glasses.

In the next shot, his glasses are back on top of the newspaper.

In the scene at the breakfast table the night after the party, in one shot the milk jug is placed so that the label is not shown, in the next shot the label is shown and in the third shot, the label is missing again.

When Diego is in the hallway at the motel, some of the production crew are reflected in one of the mirrors in the top right of one of the shots.

When the girl is on Andrew's lap at the party, his friend Mark has a cigarette in his hand in the background, but it disappears in the next shot.

When Andrew sees the doctor for the first time, he is wearing glasses which he takes off and put back on again.

However in the next shot they are gone, and he puts them back on again (again).

When Andrew in speaking with Kenny the policeman, there is a rainstorm in the background.

The rain is evident in the headlights of the police car, yet Andrew and Kenny appear to not be getting wet.

The setting is fall, but one scene in front of Mark's house shows a tree with spring blossoms in full bloom.

In the waiting room, the position of the red hair band on Sam's pinkie finger changes between shots.

In the boat, Albert's wife Fay starts off with a tea mug with a bird on it and Albert has a white mug with the periodic table on it, in the next shot the mugs are switched and in the final shot, the mugs are back to their original owners.

You can see the reflection of a light in the water on the crane during the screaming scene.

It is a very cloudy/stormy day, this would not have been visible otherwise.

In the opening scene with Andrew in his L.

bedroom, a gobo head (light stand) is reflected in the top of the fan blades.

When Mark takes Andrew to "show him something" Dave is sitting on the counter, but when Andrew and Mark enter the backroom Dave can be seen sitting on one of the couches.

After Andrew, Mark and Sam leave the ark wearing garbage bags to protect them from the rain, you can see that Sam's pink sweater is dry under the garbage, but was a dark, wet pink when they were inside the ark from being out in the rain earlier.

The sweater could not have dried while they were inside the ark.

At the bar, the amount of beer Sam has greatly decreases between shots.

When Andrew lies in bed the morning after the party, sunlight is supposedly beaming through holes in the curtains.

However the light beams are at varying angles obviously from several light sources.

When Andrew is still in L.

, he opens the mirror and a camera is reflected in it.

After his mother's funeral, Andrew has a brief talk with his dad about headaches.

At first, the skinnier end of the tie is longer but in the next shot, the fatter end is longer.

When Largeman walks into the bathroom you can see behind him that the bedroom has no ceiling, and lights are visible.

When Large is turning off the drippy bathtub faucet in his mother's bathroom, a glass of milk can be seen behind the faucet.

When we next see the faucet, the glass of milk is gone.

When Largeman is sitting in the doctor's office, a plaque appears and disappears on the wall next to the door.

When Mark and his mother are talking about the Real Estate tapes, when Mark says "You know what? I do apply myself every day, Mom.

" The shot cuts mid-sentence from a mid-shot with Mark holding his cigarette near his lap to a closer shot of Mark holding the cigarette near his head.

When Mark is robbing a grave and Jesse and Andrew are sitting on the grass watching him, Jesse talks about the book _Brave New World (1980) (TV)_ (qv) by 'Aldous Huxley' (qv), misnaming the author as Aldous Huxtable.

When Sam and Andrew are in the bathtub, there is a small cup behind Sam.

Later, when she gets up to get a cup to catch Andrew's tear, the cup behind her has disappeared and she puts the new cup where the "ghost" cup was.

When Andrew and Sam are sitting in the tub, at the start of the scene, Sam is leaning toward Large, and, when she jumps up to save his tear with a paper cup, she is leaning back, away from Andrew.

When Sam asks the bellhop why he assumes the girl they were watching was a prostitute, she mentions a line about 'Julia Roberts (I)' (qv) and the door behind her is left slightly open using the door lock hinged out.

In the next shot and preceding shots before that the door is shut.

Obvious dummy baby in the opening shot on the airplane.

When Andrew, Mark, and Sam have just arrived at the quarry and are walking toward us, you can just see headlights of an arriving car at the very edge of the frame in the background that looks like it pulls up beyond the motorcycle.

When we cut back to the shot, the car is gone.

When Largemen first enters his father's office after the funeral to talk about his headaches, his father's glasses alternate locations on the desk.

In some shots they are open on the table, in others they are not on the desk at all.

When Andrew walks into his father's bedroom, his father is asleep with his head turned to his right.

When the camera pans out to both of them, his father's head is now turned to his left without movement.

When Sam's mom gets the Dobermans off of Andrew, we still hear them barking, even though their mouths are not moving.

About 10 minutes into the film, when Andrew Largeman is riding a motorcycle without head (helmet) or eye (goggle/glasses) protection, he is stopped by a Police Officer for speeding (only).

New Jersey has both helmet and eye protection laws.

When Sam and Andrew first meet in the waiting room, there is a close-up of Sam's face smiling broadly, then relaxing her expression.

She appears to do this twice, in exactly the same way, because the shot of her smiling the second time, is clearly just played/looped again, instead of her really smiling twice.

The first time Andrew goes to look at the tub where his mother died (when he adjusts the dripping faucet) there is a white handicapped railing attached to the side of the tub, the second time he goes there (when he is sitting in the tub with Sam) there is no longer a handicapped rail.

The closing credits thank "The Township of Morristown".

No such municipality exists.

There are the "Town of Morristown" and the "Township of Morris".

Which was intended is not clear.

In the restaurant scene near the beginning, when the snotty customer asks for bread, Andrew Largeman replies they have none and explains this is because it is a Vietnamese restaurant.

In fact, because of the French colonization of Vietnam in the mid 19th Century, French baguettes are a common staple in Vietnamese cuisine and any good Vietnamese restaurant would most likely have them in their kitchen.

Mark claims that the Topps Desert Storm trading card set will be worth thousands of dollars in the future.

In 2013 the set can easily be obtained for under $8.

00 USA.

After Andrew is pulled over while riding his motorcycle, his cop friend pulls his sidearm and shows Andrew where the safety is.

He is holding a glock pistol which has no external safety.

Slowly it will take you on journey till the edge of deep abyss....to fall in or not is your decision.

I really did not no much about this film before seeing it, well, I probably did know that Zach Braff (of TV's 'Scrubs' fame) both wrote and directed it. I watched it on a recommendation from someone on Rotten Tomatoes, sorry, I can't remember who, but rest assured, it's another one crossed off 'The List'.

Garden State was a complete shock to me, as I have only seen Zach Braff in Scrubs, I only saw him as a comedic actor, and have never really been interested in seeing any of his films. But this one was recommended to me by a friend, so I gave it a whirl and was surprised that not only did I enjoy the film, it has become one of my all time favourites.

I wasn't even sure if I should write this review as I struggled to come up with words to describe it. On the one hand there are some good things about it, quality moments where you really empathise with Zach Braff's character and his feelings.

Zach Braff directs and stars in the 2004 dramedy "Garden State". The movie follows the story of a a 26-year-old actor/waiter (Braff) who returns to his hometown in New Jersey after his mother dies.

This movie starts with a promising details..under the carpet conversation but become shameless in the latter half..

(Credit IMDb) A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.Garden State is an excellent movie.

I just thought that I'd give the review a funny title because I live in New Jersey, and I just thought that I'd be slightly more down-to-earth than I see the film as being. (It's like some indie guy went all like-- this is down-to-earth for me.

I was lucky enough to find a DVD copy of this film in my local library. Being a die-hard fan of Scrubs and Zach Braff, I decided to rent this film out not expecting much.