Garden State
Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, a journey that reconnects him with old friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam—a girl also struggling with various maladies—opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional connections, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life. From TMDB
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60 of 229 · most liked firstThe Shins were an excellent band with some killer pop songs and a great vocalist who were unfairly maligned by association with Garden State and that movie is basically fine also
positive · AI labelView post →Vance says he knows the difficulties of Ukraine without going there because he 'saw the stories,' but Vance also literally couldn't watch the Zach Braff film 'Garden State' because it made him too emotional. (Text is from Vance's post-graduate blogspot blog under his original name, JD Hamel.)
neutral · AI labelView post →True Ian Holm fans will know this is the wrong movie reference for us to make. A 'Garden State' reference would have been much more appropriate given the importance of an unsafe dishwasher to that film's plot. Once again, we hold ourselves accountable because filmsky will not.
neutral · AI labelView post →9/11 didn't do half the psychological damage to millennials that the movie Garden State did.
negative · AI labelView post →*slaps the discourse machine, it starts printing* Garden State has the greatest movie soundtrack
positive · AI labelView post →TIL: Frou Frou's famously-attached-to-the-movie-Garden-State- song, Let Go, was written for another film. Phone booth. That movie where Colin Ferrell gets stuck in a phone booth with a sniper on him. I'm dead serious.
neutral · AI labelView post →It can still be 2011 if you want it to be. GARDEN STATE can still be a new movie. You can still be excited to stomp and clap and hey. You can choose to believe social media is healthy
neutral · AI labelView post →Today at Fort Monmouth, we broke ground on one of Netflix’s largest studios – further solidifying New Jersey’s reputation as global leader in film and television production. As the birthplace of the motion picture industry, we are thrilled to welcome Netflix to the Garden State.
neutral · AI labelView post →If a millennial man has ever made you uncomfortable, there is at least a 40% chance it's partially the fault of the movie Garden State.
negative · AI labelView post →Just saw a click bait thing about how Garden State was an underrated movie nobody talked about in the early Aughts and I am too old and tired for this. I do not have the knees for it.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 21- A Song You Discovered By Accident I Just Don't Think I'll Get Over You -Colin Hay Discovered in the film "Garden State" 2004. Impossible to recognized Colin Hay from his Men At Work days. STUNNING PIECE OF ACOUSTIC WORK. Moving & beautiful.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah so the problem with Garden State being the millennial movie is that late millennials (like those born like 1993 or later) have no memory of people born ~1985-1991 doing this exact thing for an entire year.
neutral · AI labelView post →The only other thing I can think of where I had anywhere near this level of total vindication is with the movie Garden State, where I was once again the world's only hater in 2004 and now it's an overwhelmingly popular opinion that it was not a good movie
negative · AI labelView post →trying to think of the worst movie i made my mom see with me (she *hated* The Village or The Life Aquatic which is obviously a very wrong opinion). but i think the double feature of Napoleon Dynamite and Garden State is what made her ask "are you sure you want to study movies in college" lmaooo
neutral · AI labelView post →From our unbeatable location to the NewJersey EDA Film & Digital Media Tax Credit Program, the Garden State is quickly making a name for itself when it comes to film and television production. Watch out, Hollywood! 📽️ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a darkness that lies beneath the surface of the flawed but, nonetheless, engaging Garden State. But the film mostly deals with the light that comes from facing the ghosts of past trauma, healing oneself, and finding connection again. #FilmSky 📽
positive · AI labelView post →A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "One of These Things First" came out in 1971 but didn't reach a big audience until three decades after Nick Drake's 1974 death, when it was included on the wildly popular soundtrack for the 2004 movie 'Garden State.' See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDts...
neutral · AI labelView post →Going with The Shins, “New Slang” on account of peak elder millennial movie Garden State
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Garden State has one of the GOATed soundtracks for sure. She's All That is still such a good watch and a fun movie. MATTHEW LILLARD IS A MENACE.
positive · AI labelView post →25 years of The Shins track, New Slang! On this day we released “New Slang” as a 7” single and that track happily lives on the earth-shattering 2001 debut album, ‘Oh, Inverted World’, and has been heard in the hit movie, Garden State. Snag the vinyl 🌎 music.subpop.com/theshins_new...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, I signed legislation to strengthen the New Jersey EDA Film & Digital Media Tax Credit. By enhancing this program, we will attract more film and TV production to the Garden State – stimulating our economy and creating good-paying jobs. Read more: nj.gov/governor/new...
neutral · AI labelView post →We won the best documentary short award at the Garden State Film Festival!
neutral · AI labelView post →in any ceremony or function, a ceremony dedicated to Ganesh is always the first thing to happen. He's the remover of obstacles and bad luck. A lot of films and tv start with a prayer to Ganesh, like the old film Garden State. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoqX...
neutral · AI labelView post →took a break from reality to watch the Sonic movies this weekend and I am unfortunately very endeared to these fucked up lil creature but also, I can’t believe Shadow the Hedgehog is the protagonist of the indie romance film Garden State
neutral · AI labelView post →Garden State might be a movie that Millennials watched growing up, but it was made by a Gen X’er and really reflects Gen X values/anxieties/dreams. Millennials should stick with Superbad or Mean Girls.
negative · AI labelView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 80s - The Shining 90s - The Sixth Sense 00s - Garden State 10s - Hereditary 20s - Dune - Part Two
positive · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic Day 27: From a movie you saw at the cinema New Slang - The Shins • Garden State youtu.be/Q322n-f3FlU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼 #MusicChallenge 🎶 Song I found through movie/tv… I remember watching Garden State & hearing this song & rediscovering him after this, again… youtu.be/ATA4JAwZ15I?...
neutral · AI labelView post →There needs to be a museum of “art that immediately turned into cliché,” where this movie and “Garden State” play nonstop, the music section is full of songs like “Free Bird,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” and “Wagon Wheel,” and the literature section is basically a shrine to “Catcher in the Rye.”
negative · AI labelView post →"Millions of dollars are divested from a major bank in the Garden State. A concert in Maplewood. A film screening in Jersey City. Demonstrations across New Jersey." What do they all have in common? Delaney Hall
neutral · AI labelView post →42. GARDEN STATE is a very bad movie, but it contains fragments of a pretty good stoner comedy staring Peter Sarsgaard.
unlabelledView post →Gabriel is aggressively wrong and seeing red bc it’s Stancil and I neither love nor hate to see it, it is what it is with this dude Garden State as *the Millennial Movie* is up for debate, but it’s certainly in the Millennial Canon
unlabelledView post →Ok let’s break up the Doom. Give me 5 albums you consider 10/10. No skips. No notes. Perfection. 1. All Day — Girl Talk 2. So — Peter Gabriel 3. Divine Madness — Madness 4. In No Sense? Nonsense! — The Art of Noise 5. Garden State — movie soundtrack
unlabelledView post →So excited to have my film, In Transit, being shown at the Garden State Film Festival this month! #GSFF
unlabelledView post →Sunday show announcement time! 20 years ago, Zach Braff made a movie about a mentally unwell man seeking a quirky girl who would save him, and it changed the way women in quarter-life-crisis movies were presented for at least a decade. GARDEN STATE DROPS ON THURSDAY!
unlabelledView post →I wonder how many songs from 500 Days of Summer, the second most millennial movie, will show up on this list. Garden State is obviously the big boss millennial movie. #xpncountdown
unlabelledView post →This movie really takes the heat off Garden State in the aged worst race.
unlabelledView post →#MOVIEMADNESS Day 11: Movie with the best sound track Garden State Thievery Corporation | Lebanese Blonde youtu.be/sA4_97zXBYk?...
unlabelledView post →If Garden State had been a better movie they would have listened The Beat Happening instead of The Shins and it would have been The Beat Happening maybe Indian Summer or maybe Tiger Trap on that album and it would have made Millennial Socialism occur sooner better and Woke 1 would have worked
unlabelledView post →I need a new movie with a Garden State level soundtrack.
unlabelledView post →Garden State (Film / DVD: 2004)
unlabelledView post →It fucking pains me, because that movie was terrible, but Garden State really nailed the drug-addled millionaire who knows jack shit. "Huxtable. Aldous Huxtable"
unlabelledView post →I keep wincing as I remember the time when I was a freshman in college in 2008 and did the Garden State thing to a cute classmate and suggested the Shins to her and I had never even seen the movie
unlabelledView post →This guy: "The Passion of the Christ is more of a millennial movie than Garden State" Tf are we even doing here? I'm a millennial. The millennial girl I had a crush on but was too dumb to realize wanted to bang can't to my dorm to watch Garden State with me. I listened to the soundtrack for weeks
unlabelledView post →For many years my answer to this was Garden State but at some point popular opinion turned on this film and people realized (correctly) that it sucks
unlabelledView post →Last photo of Bruce Springsteen with Clarence Clemons. 14 yrs ago, Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons attended The 9th Annual Garden State Film Festival: "Who Do I Think I Am" After Party in Asbury Park. It was a documentary about Clarence Clemons. Asbury Park, NJ (April 2, 2011) 📸 : Bobby Bank
unlabelledView post →Zach Braff, the director of 'Garden State' (who is from South Orange NJ) concert in LA to mark the 20th anniversary of the movie. Several of the performers from the soundtrack played. This article describes it as "Woodstock for elder millennials" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
unlabelledView post →#2004Top20 | 15 Rilo Kiley - Portion For Foxes For Jenny Lewis, ex Queen of Indie and great inspiration for countless 'manic pixie dream girl' film characters in the 2000s 😂 (see Scott Pilgrim, Eternal Sunshine, Garden State & every single Zooey Deschanel role) youtu.be/dMQtbF-AQ6A?...
unlabelledView post →Garden State is a Millennial movie made by GenXers, in the exact same way that The Breakfast Club is a Gen X movie made by Boomers. It's classified based on the audience that it influenced.
unlabelledView post →Two things will reveal you as part of the micro generation that was deeply affected by the movie Garden State: an irrational fear of open dishwashers, and a belief that song 28 on the #xpncountdown will change your life.
unlabelledView post →Day 7: Your favorite artist from the 2000s 🎶🩵 #EcksteinsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky New Slang — The Shins (2001) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwC... This quiet indie track blew up after being featured in the film Garden State.
unlabelledView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky 9/4 | A song you love from a movie you don't I don't hate Garden State, but the soundtrack is better than the film deserves. The 2 tracks I love most are Iron & Wine's cover of "Such Great Heights" and: "Lebanese Blonde" by Thievery Corporation (1998)
unlabelledView post →"Millions of dollars are divested from a major bank in the Garden State. A concert in Maplewood. A film screening in Jersey City. Demonstrations across New Jersey. What do they all have in common? Delaney Hall." #deicecitizensbank
unlabelledView post →“Garden State” and “Singles” are two great film soundtracks!
unlabelledView post →What's your comfort show and movie? Show: Scrubs Movie: Garden State
unlabelledView post →dude watched Garden State and it messed him up
unlabelledView post →#MusicChallenge #SoundtrackChallenge Song from a movie with your 2000s crush Such Great Heights Iron & Wine The incomparable Ms Portman in Garden State open.spotify.com/track/6dDxgf...
unlabelledView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #FilmSky 🎥 Favorite pop song used in a movie. The Shins "New Slang" Garden State (2004)
unlabelledView post →I put on the Garden State soundtrack (film doesn't really hold up but the music absolutely does) and holy shit that movie came out 21 years ago
unlabelledView post →Some of my favorite film soundtracks: Trainspotting, Garden State, Wicker Park, Amores Perros. Yours? #FilmSky #Movies 🎥
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