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.
If we're meant to take these threads as a tapestry of L.A., then Freeland clearly needs to stop watching Robert Altman DVDs and go outside to see what the real world is actually like.
– Aaron Hillis,
Village Voice,
10 Jul 2008
rotten:
It's a production in search of a movie.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
10 Jul 2008
rotten:
A low-rent answer to Robert Altmana(TM)s Short Cuts.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
11 Jul 2008
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Slow ride to nowhere.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
13 Jul 2008
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Their lives eventually intersect, but in more or less arbitrary ways.