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Come with a Dream. Leave with a Story.Plot:
Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Opening This Week: Dot-com days, period magicians, Eddie (sigh) Murphy (From IFC. 15 July 2008, 4:59 PM, PDT)
Garden Party (From New York Post. 10 July 2008, 10:27 PM, PDT)
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Los Angeles is a city of transplants, every person arriving with a dream that is eventually shown to be an illusion in the harsh light of city's reality. GARDEN PARTY weaves this theme beautifully with an ensemble cast of up-and-comers.
The film introduces each character as a classic archetype - the runaway teen, the frustrated artist, the demanding successful boss, the aspiring musician, the dead-end job dreamer - but the film then spends its time delving deep into the personalities behind these stereotypes, revealing them all as individuals as it entangles them in various plots that flirt with destruction but offer redemption. Along the way there is porn, pot, homelessness, backstabbing, tools from the entertainment industry, superficiality, revenge ... and love!
As a native Angeleno, what struck me most was how this film captures the mundane, day-to- day existence of Los Angeles with every hint of glamor and Utopian paradise removed from the stark cityscape. What GARDEN PARTY delivers is an accurate and memorable vision of the city of Angels being a landscape of personalities, each with a dream, some with a dark side and most with a sympathetic humanity underneath it all.