Product Details

• Actors: Erik Smith, Tierra Abbott, Vinessa Shaw, Willa Holland, Richard Gunn
• Directors: Jason Freeland
• Writers: Jason Freeland
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001F34HQE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,408 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Garden Party" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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GARDEN PARTY - DVD Movie

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shallow, but entertaining, June 9, 2009

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Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garden Party (DVD)

Ensemble cast flick about a bunch of very young Angelinos as they go about their lives. No plot to be bothered with. Some gratuitous nudity. In fact, people seem to be disrobing every few minutes here to compensate for the lack of drama. No matter. This is still entertaining enough for a night's viewing pleasure.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I LIKED IT, October 12, 2010

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Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garden Party (DVD)

First off the picture on the front cover never appears in the movie, nor do all those characters enter a swimming pool. The title "Garden Party" comes from the Ricky Nelson song which is sung at a Garden Party. The movie centers around the sleazy Internet Porno traffickers, their clients, and users plus those who intersect with their lives. The characters in this film are human. They are neither all good nor all bad. Victims are not all victims and people who help you all want something, but only a few demand.

Vinessa Shaw plays a real estate agent, Sally St. Clair (the box says LA, but the Hollywood sign is real prominent in the background). We find out she was once a stripper, who became a real estate agent. She helps street urchins, but demands their loyalty and hard work in return. She is ruthless and unethical in business and is not afraid to use her sex to get what she wants. Working for her is a Nebraska boy, who is unsure about his sexuality. He is mostly gay, but is confused. April is a 15 year old who runs away from her perverted step-dad who spies on her in the bathroom. He hasn't touched her, but she has to leave and will do anything to stay out of his home. She stays with some friends who are lesbians and works posing for Internet porn. Sammy, another street urchin is a gifted musician who stays with the semi-gay Nebraskan until is he is discovered. There is also a pervert who constantly downloads Internet porn who stalks, then hooks up Sally and helps her get her nude pictures removed from the Internet. This loosely ties them to other characters in the story.

The music is excellent. There is just one nude scene near the beginning. At times the movie seems like it is soft porno without the nudity. Excessive pot use. The movie, like a Ricky Nelson song is light in spite of the sleazy situations and all ends well.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars attending this Party left me wondering why..., November 16, 2008

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Geminiguy (Bloomington, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garden Party (DVD)

Garden Party is one of those movies that feature a few storylines that all intertwine throughout the movie. I usually like movies like this one because I enjoy the variety of characters presented and the interesting ways their lives intersect. Unfortunately, this is one movie that I found my self feeling completely blank on. I neither like it nor hate it. I do feel as if I wasted my time watching it though.

Let me see... there was diversity. There was a real estate agent who was extremely successful who had a few dirty pictures floating around on the internet. She has a stalker guy who is obsessed with her and having woes with his girlfriend and cannot seem to decide if he wants to sell his house. Her assistant is a guy who seems confused... really confused... about his sexuality but he does have an affixation for pot. He picks up this homeless kid who is a musician who is on the verge of being big and develops a swift attraction to him. The homeless kid seems to be a "pleaser" and will do whatever to make someone happy. He meets a girl at a party and she seems to develop some odd... swift sexually charged emotional connection with him. OH! And then there is the young woman who runs away from a "pervert step-father" infested home to live with her lesbian cousin. Also in the mix are a dirty picture photographer who also seems to double as a creepy therapist and an older man who has the lust of a school boy when it comes to women but the attitude of a pig when it comes to them saying no.

So, while the cast is rather diverse and their pasts seem interesting, when it all gets fleshed out it all seems so bland. The acting was serviceable but it just wasn't enough to make me really care for anybody. Even though the film dealt with some rather "dirty" elements, it came off to squeaky clean for my tastes. I have nothing against squeaky clean, don't get me wrong. But I do have a problem when squeaky clean is in a movie that seems to follow the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Lame horse... meet pasture...