- Release Date: 2008
- Runtime: 80 min
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Antonio Villaraigosa ... see all
- Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Plot: The 14 acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles was the largest of it's kind in the United States. It was started as a form of healing after the... Read more
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Critics Reviews
| Apr 30, 2009San Francisco Chronicle
turns in the story, "The Garden" is remarkably lucid....This film contains strong language and legalese..... ... Full Review
| Feb 13, 2009The Scorecard Review
They find a lawyer, and what follows could make a good political thriller.
Expectations: The Garden is up for this year's Best Documentary Oscar, so I expected good things.
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| Dec 16, 2008PopMatters
The farmers form the collective subject of Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden , winner of the Sterling U.S. Feature Award at this year's Silverdocs Festival and shortlisted for Academy Awards consideration in 2009.
When the bulldozers arrive at last, along with policemen with batons, the scene is heartbreaking-as well as frustrating and infuriating.
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News
THE GARDEN - ??? - Documentary feature about a South Central Los Angeles community garden; with English subtitles (Spanish dialects); not rated, probable R (violence, profanity, slurs, brief drugs); Broadway Centre Like a lot of modern-day documentaries - which should... ... Full Article
Fight takes root for city 'Garden'
bostonherald.com –
2009-05-21
N ominated for a Best Documentary Feature Oscar, "The Garden" chronicles the battle of largely poor Latinos to preserve their community garden in South Central Los Angeles. ... Full Article
The power of Scott Hamilton Kennedy 's 2002 documentary OT: Our Town lay in the way Kennedy unobtrusively captured the racial tensions at Compton 's Dominguez High School , and in the ways that students and faculty used art to... ... Full Article
LOS ANGELES (AP) "The Garden" focuses on one of the most fundamental functions of human existence: the process of working the earth to grow healthy fruits and vegetables. ... Full Article
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examiner.com –
2009-04-26
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around, you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best... ... Full Article
Movie Reviews: Earth, The Garden, Obsessed
laweekly.com –
2009-04-20
CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE A glue-huffing variant on the gimmick-noir D.O.A., 2006's Crank was a riotous demonstration of the Actionvore's Dilemma: The harsher the swill you consume - "swill" in this case meaning an all-you-can-eat strip-bar lunch buffet of mindless splatter,... ... Full Article

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"The Garden"



