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Garden Party

2008

Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 16% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 3614 3.6K

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Plot summary

Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.

Director

Jason Freeland Photo
Jason Freeland

Top cast

Vinessa Shaw Photo
Vinessa Shaw as Sally St. Claire
Jennifer Lawrence Photo
Jennifer Lawrence as Tiff
Willa Holland Photo
Willa Holland as April
Patrick Fischler Photo
Patrick Fischler as Anthony
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809.86 MB
1280*722
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 7
1.62 GB
1910*1076
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by testacorsa 6 / 10

A nice little time waster flick.

Well, it's my first comment here on IMDb, but since this movie only had two comments before mine, one of them rating it perfect and the other one below average, I thought mine would make sense.First of, I really liked the semi slow-flowing pace this film had. It kept me entertained the whole way through, and I was excited to see what happened next.Eash characters little story holds dilemmas, and situations we can understand and relate to. While the storyline isn't heading anywhere in particular, it takes you through a short period of time in the character's life. I like this style, and when this is done well, I find I don't long for a big climaxes, or an ending where everything comes together.Sadly there is a lack of depth in the characters. The stereotype characters work very well, but we aren't allowed to look much further below the surface. The perspective is always from the outside as a spectator, which makes the few reactions and emotions seem pretty superficial and hollow.This movie could have been much more! A bit more manuscript development, and it would have been up there.So all in all: This is not a masterpiece, and not a movie I will remember, but a good hour and a half's entertainment well worth watching.
Reviewed by MBunge 5 / 10

Deja Vu

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 5 / 10

Enjoyable but Pointless Stories in LA

The teenager April (Willa Holland) arrives in Los Angeles expecting to find a job and she stays at her lesbian cousin's home. Sammy (Erik Scott Smith) is a talented homeless singer, musician and composer that meets a guy that offers an opportunity to him to become a pop star. Nathan (Alex Cendese) is a young gay that has come to Los Angeles expecting to be a dancer but works as secretary of the real state agent Sally St. Claire (Vinessa Shaw). Todd (Richard Gunn) is an artist that neglects his girlfriend and spends most of his time in porn sites. Their lives are entwined when the pornographer Anthony (Patrick Fischler) meets Nathan and April in a bar and he offers two-thousand dollars to take nude pictures of them. Nathan befriends Sammy on the street. Sally hires April to work in her office with Nathan. And Sally dates Todd and finds that there are pictures of her in Internet."Garden Party" is a film with enjoyable but pointless stories in LA. The characters are likable but the neither the characters and nor the situations are well developed. The one-dimensional characters are shallow and the story goes nowhere. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): Not Available
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