Product Description

Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard. After nine years of being away from home, a young, depressed Andrew returns to New Jersey after his mother's death and tries to reconnect with his overbearing father in this wacky but endearing comedy. 2004/color/103 min/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3869 in DVD
• Brand: FOX Home Entertainment
• Published on: 2004-12-01
• Released on: 2004-12-28
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 102 minutes

From The New Yorker
Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff), a struggling actor, arrives in his native New Jersey with some extra baggage: his paraplegic mother has possibly committed suicide, he's been on Zoloft since forever, and his one major acting credit is as a retarded quarterback. This would be a difficult burden for any young man, let alone a début movie. But Braff, who also wrote and directed, keeps the tone light with some very funny homecoming scenes. There's a party where Large is greeted as "Jersey's De Niro," a run-in with a high-school friend turned cop, and, like a winning bass line, the smirking wit of his stoner friend Mark (Peter Sarsgaard). The movie is also lifted by the presence of Natalie Portman, perhaps the ultimate ethereal home-town girl. Braff eventually takes the movie to emotional places where only the extremely tenderhearted will follow, but there are a lot of nice moments that resonate, and a beautiful soundtrack of moody, interior music. With Ian Holm as the icy father and songs by Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Shins. -Michael Agger
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker