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The Garden
Directed by
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Not Rated
2008
80m
Documentary
7.3
79%
85%
6.6
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From the ashes of the L.A. riots arose a lush, 14-acre community garden, the largest of its kind in the United States. Now bulldozers threaten its future.
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Cast of The Garden
Daryl Hannah
Self
Juanita Tate
Herself
Antonio Villaraigosa
Himself
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Director
The Garden Ratings & Reviews
Washington Times
Kelly Jane Torrance
It's easy to tell what side the filmmaker takes, which leads to unanswered questions... [Director Scott Hamilton] Kennedy's compelling documentary is quite thorough otherwise.
7M Pictures
Kevin Carr
an interesting film simply for the complexity of this issue
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
The Garden moves beyond the feel good facet of any apparent ending to show how stark, stupid reality can rip said victory away. It won't make sense - none of these 'us vs. them' situations ever do - but it does create compelling cinema.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
Justice and Corruption and Profit are abstractions, and film is so ill suited to deal with abstractions.
Washington Post
Philip Kennicott
A good documentary leaves the viewer wanting more. A problematic one leaves the viewer needing more.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A compelling, inspirational, provocative and thoroughly engrossing documentary.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
[Director] Hamilton captures the heart-wrenching devastation done in the name of profit, as citizens mourn. Incredibly effecting.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The Garden is an especially fatuous documentary, nominated for an Oscar this year, about a community garden in South Central LA where Latino farmers have been allowed to grow food on somebody else's land.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A compelling documentary about an urban garden collective and their fight for justice in a nation where poor people are expected to keep quiet and not speak truth to power.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
This intricate and compelling documentary paints a saddening portrait of American politics.
Slant Magazine
Adam Keleman
The documentary digs deep into the racial and monetary problems of a tumultuous, melting-pot community.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Scott Hamilton Kennedy's plucky, powerful storytelling makes this a worthwhile experience.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A political documentary that is as lovingly developed as the garden cared for by poor immigrants.
NewsBlaze
Kam Williams
A heartbreaking documentary which landed a well-deserved Oscar-nomination for its touching portrayal of Spanish-speaking salt-of-the-earth who find it hard to fathom that the legal system could possibly side with a crook out to flatten the fruit of their
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
A documentary about fighting city hall, the empty promises of politicians, backroom deals, small victories over the Man and the cost paid by a handful of farmers who endured all of the above. Imagine if John Steinbeck rewrote the script for <Chinatown.</e
Hollywood & Fine
Marshall Fine
An infuriatingly clear-eyed documentary...suspenseful and moving, a film that keeps you guessing (and hoping) right up until the conclusion.
Metromix.com
Geoff Berkshire
Presents a classic story of the little guy taking on The Man with both thrilling and frustrating results.
About.com
Jennifer Merin
A beautiful portrait of a unique downtown LA community of poor Mexican-Americans who've turned urban blight into a marvelous garden and fight a developer determined to shut them down. A moving, inspiring documentary.
Variety
Robert Koehler
It becomes clear that a more thorough, objective and serious journalistic approach was required once the story delves into the intricacies of the property's murky history.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's tempting to call The Garden a story of innocence and experience, of evil corrupting paradise, but that would be doing a disservice to the fascinating complexities of a classic Los Angeles conflict and an excellent doc that does them full justice.
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