Willa Holland, Erik Smith, Alexander Cendese

Garden Party is the tale of five adventurous souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but sh...( read more  read more... )e may not know how to reach her goals with her clothes on. Sally St. Clair is a sexy realtor with a secret past. She’s got a great eye for spotting adventurous souls and thrives on giving them direction in life. One of those adventurous souls is Nathan, her new assistant. Nathan moved to Los Angeles from Nebraska seeking success as a dancer, but now most of his time is spent making photocopies for Sally and her clients. One of those clients is Todd, a porn-addicted artist who agrees to help Sally get revenge for a past indiscretion in exchange for her helping him realize his greatest fantasy. Meanwhile, a starry-eyed street musician Sammy moves in with Nathan, and they soon find they have very different ideas of their relationship status. Soon, everyone becomes hopelessly ensnared in Sally’s kinky entanglements.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Jason Freeland

Release Date: May 30, 2008

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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008

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  • January 19, 2009
    Two stars is still being gracious. Weed, porn, underage drinking, porn, weed, kinky pictures and weed.
  • September 8, 2009
    This was a lot different than I expected..It was okay. I liked some of the story aspects but overall the plot was all over the place in an annoyingly un-organized fashion. Most of the seperate story lines didn't connect so they were unnecessary. It did, however, have an interesti...( read more)ng look at how dark life can be and how easily someone can get mixed up with the wrong kind of people.
  • July 21, 2009
    It's todays Movie... I feel, This writer and producer of this film have a grip on today's youth and their issues. Good film
  • July 21, 2009
    different, but pretty good
  • July 10, 2009
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  • July 8, 2009
    I thought is was a good movie, and it did just what it was supposed to. If you look past the forest you will see the trees. I saw a couple of homeless kids who although being in a bad situation made it out of the forest. It is written that the last shall be first. Now who would ...( read more)have thought that the office boy would find himself and go home to get his education, having found out that all that glitters ain't gold. The agent got her pictures not that it took them off the net but she felt better having them. I looked past the drugs and booze and saw that the people all had a purpose and with their own dreams in hand they got just what they wanted.
  • June 17, 2009
    Its an interesting movie but the problem is the story never goes anywhere. Just some people thrown together and there paths intertwine.
  • June 6, 2009
    waste of time...SERIOUSLY
  • January 31, 2009
    A very average indie drama that is never as edgy as it could be to set itself apart from numerous other indie dramas. I thought the characters were well-drawn enough, but it just felt like a little slice of life story in which we follow around a disparate group of people around...( read more) who all inexplicably meet one another in Hollywood.

    Worth a rental, but nothing earth-shatteringly new.

Critic Reviews


July 13, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post

Slow ride to nowhere. full review

July 10, 2008
Marcy Dermansky, About.com

Willa Holland is the one good thing about Garden Party -- not because of her performance (which is neither good or bad) but for that nostalgia she evoked in me for young Fairuza [Balk]. full review

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  • kaylee54
    July 11, 2008
    i know it's an indie film, but it was terrible. one of the characters is a complete knock off of vince vaugh - just too much. one character is a wanna-be singer but his voice was like nails on a chalkboard. almost funny cuz he music itself was pretty decent, just not his voice. and then there is the gorgeous realtor who is the 'best' in LA cuz she gives her multi-million dollar clients tiny bags of weed in their listing packets. yea, whatever. and watching a movie about homeless teenagers trying to get paid for sex is very depressing. couldn't sit through it.

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