Although Zach Braff's promising writing-directing debut is a bit affected, few actors with behind-the-camera aspirations succeed as well as the
Scrubs star does with this melancholy romantic comedy, in which he also stars. Braff's screenplay, which revolves around struggling 26-year-old actor Andrew "Large" Largeman (Braff), who returns home to suburban New Jersey to attend his mother's funeral, is based on his own material, not Rick Moody's similarly themed novel. Ever since he caused the accident that paralyzed his mother — he was only 9 at the time — Large has been living life in a mild pharmaceutical haze, numbed by the regimen of antidepressants prescribe...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins