
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. As April navigates Los Angeles, she falls in with a group of confused kids struggling to chase their dreams. The black widow at the center of this web is a sexy, pot-dealing ... (Full plot summary below)
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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. As April navigates Los Angeles, she falls in with a group of confused kids struggling to chase their dreams. The black widow at the center of this web is a sexy, pot-dealing realtor named Sally St. Clair. Anyone who gets too close falls victim to her kinky entanglements. For some it goes bad, for other worse.
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| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe characters aren't interesting, and the stories toggle between tawdry and ridiculous. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerWhether or not Garden Party is an accurate portrait of the shadow L.A. culture where the young, pretty and desperate can find quick rent money, this low-budget production never engages with its characters or stories enough to make you care either way. |
| Portland OregonianMarc MohanMore 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. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsNot exactly a feelgood drama, but nonetheless an eye-opening peek at the ugly underbelly of a merciless metropolis that could care less about the fate of the least of its brethren. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersThe result is a movie impossible to pigeonhole and one even more difficult to describe, and to say there hasn't been anything else quite like it this year certainly wouldn't be a lie. |
| CinematicalJeffrey M. AndersonSophomore writer/director Freeland doesn't quite feel like the host of this particular "garden party," but rather like the party's Sabrina, secretly spying from the sidelines. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeIsn'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. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAlthough competently acted and directed, lacks a fresh point of view and its people lack individuality. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenWhatever 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. |
| IGN MoviesTodd GilchristFreeland's film offers a poor man's Los Angeles opus. |