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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary Los Feliz, CA - On the sleazier side of Sunset, teenage beauty APRIL has humble ambitions. She’s searching for a way to get by without taking off her clothes—any more than she already has. Sally St. Clair is a realtor whose business has been built upon her sex appeal and secret past. Nathan, has moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska in sear...

Directed By: Jason Freeland

Written By: Jason Freeland

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 1 h 28 m

Garden Party

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Los Feliz, CA - On the sleazier side of Sunset, teenage beauty APRIL has humble ambitions. She’s searching for a way to get by without taking off her clothes—any more than she already has. Sally St. Clair is a realtor whose business has been built upon her sex appeal and secret past. Nathan, has moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska in sear...

Directed By: Jason Freeland

Written By: Jason Freeland

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75
More a collection of character vignettes than a full-blown story, Garden Party nonetheless shows as much promise for its makers as it gives to its characters.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
50
Whatever else it may accomplish, Garden Party, which is clumsily structured but well acted, with pungently realistic dialogue, puts you in a world without a center in which you can't tell upside down from right-side up.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
50
Isn't racy enough to warrant the word of mouth necessary to make pic a sensation with its generation, the way the unrelated disaffected-twentysomething hit "Garden State" was.
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38
It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
33
Taken together, these stories are a symphony of inconsequentiality, drained of tension and purpose until all that remains is a vague sense of collective ennui.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
20
Trivial, commercially calculated ensemble drama (porn! pot! rock music!), which plays like a non-musical "Rent," or a faux-edgy "Shortbus" for kids raised on "American Pie."
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12
A slow ride to nowhere.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lookout Films
Release Date Jul 11, 2008
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Come with a Dream. Leave with a Story.
Website http://www.gardenpartymovie.com/
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