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Fresh:15
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Average Rating:7.2/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in... [More]
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.
Likely to grab your heart and incite your passions.
[Director Kennedy] lets his subjects tell their tales in their own words. And that's what really makes the film interesting.
Justice and Corruption and Profit are abstractions, and film is so ill suited to deal with abstractions.
A good documentary leaves the viewer wanting more. A problematic one leaves the viewer needing more.
A compelling, inspirational, provocative and thoroughly engrossing documentary.
[Director] Hamilton captures the heart-wrenching devastation done in the name of profit, as citizens mourn. Incredibly effecting.
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.
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.
This intricate and compelling documentary paints a saddening portrait of American politics.
Top CriticScott Hamilton Kennedy's plucky, powerful storytelling makes this a worthwhile experience.
The Garden does a fine job of promoting the power of grassroots advocacy; in almost all other respects, however, this is nonfiction filmmaking thats nearly as dull as dirt.
A political documentary that is as lovingly developed as the garden cared for by poor immigrants.
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
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
An infuriatingly clear-eyed documentary...suspenseful and moving, a film that keeps you guessing (and hoping) right up until the conclusion.
Presents a classic story of the little guy taking on The Man with both thrilling and frustrating results.
From that David and Goliath setup, filmed in a straightforward style on a shoestring budget, emerge fascinating character studies that underscore both the best and worst of human nature.
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.
May 06, 2009:
It's Latinos vs. landlord in Academy Award-nominated documentary. 
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April 19, 2009:
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