Garage Sale

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Summary: delightful film.
Review: A delightful film, inspiring smiles, chuckles and belly laughs. Dialogue captures "American family" at its sarcastic best--relatively clueless "head" of household, a mom who does all the heavy lifting, both physically and emotionally, and three of the most incisively sarcastic children you'll see on film, and who clearly won't buy the suburban bliss thing for an instant.
Set over the course of a one day garage sale in a cul-de-sac in Silicon Valley, the setting could be plastic-suburb-anywhere-USA, complete with mooching neighbors, lazy friends, and an endless parade of out-there losers displaying their precious little insecurities for all to see. Very California, very America too. Surrounded by the remarkably wasteful excesses of American culture--including a front-yard full of virtually unused exercise equipment-- the film portrays a growing sense of neighborhood, overcoming the BS and distance and irony and sarcasm to display an affirming human connection. A hoot, a small movie that uses humor in incredible ways--aren't we all "the lonely guy"?. Great title song. Director's commentary very entertaining as well.

Rating:
Summary: delightful film.
Review: A delightful film, inspiring smiles, chuckles and belly laughs. Dialogue captures "American family" at its sarcastic best--relatively clueless "head" of household, a mom who does all the heavy lifting, both physically and emotionally, and three of the most incisively sarcastic children you'll see on film, and who clearly won't buy the suburban bliss thing for an instant.
Set over the course of a one day garage sale in a cul-de-sac in Silicon Valley, the setting could be plastic-suburb-anywhere-USA, complete with mooching neighbors, lazy friends, and an endless parade of out-there losers displaying their precious little insecurities for all to see. Very California, very America too. Surrounded by the remarkably wasteful excesses of American culture--including a front-yard full of virtually unused exercise equipment-- the film portrays a growing sense of neighborhood, overcoming the BS and distance and irony and sarcasm to display an affirming human connection. A hoot, a small movie that uses humor in incredible ways--aren't we all "the lonely guy"?. Great title song. Director's commentary very entertaining as well.

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Summary: These people have been to MY garage sales!
Review: A great independent feature. I loved the family! The behind the scenes short (in the special features section) shows how fun the set must have been. Pop up some corn & have at it.
....interesting commentary... A must have DVD if you're a garage sale fan.

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Summary: verite America at its worst and best
Review: an in-depth exploration of suburban culture, GARAGE SALE captures and develops a remarkable number of characters in this light-hearted family comedy. most definitely a repeat-viewing type of movie, the subtleties one finds on the third or fourth viewing still jump out. the kids are remarkably naturalistic in their acting, the mom and dad deliver as well. the parade of friends and garage sale shoppers is loopy enough to accurately portray the culture (and be funny!!) while not being SO out there as to challenge believability.
GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES, and this is a movie that packs a comedic and dramatic punch. what is the director working on now?

Rating:
Summary: verite America at its worst and best
Review: an in-depth exploration of suburban culture, GARAGE SALE captures and develops a remarkable number of characters in this light-hearted family comedy. most definitely a repeat-viewing type of movie, the subtleties one finds on the third or fourth viewing still jump out. the kids are remarkably naturalistic in their acting, the mom and dad deliver as well. the parade of friends and garage sale shoppers is loopy enough to accurately portray the culture (and be funny!!) while not being SO out there as to challenge believability.
GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES, and this is a movie that packs a comedic and dramatic punch. what is the director working on now?

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Summary: indie reviewer
Review: Don't heed the one star review. Obviously, the viewer has a very valid opinion but it seems they may have watched the film with the audio commentary on(a dvd option on this disc). Actually, I found this film to be a funny, Fellini-esque view of an American tradition-the garage sale. In addition, the film is well crafted and well shot-especially compared to the visual quality of most indies (someone actually cared enough to film in 35mm-good job guys). Okay, so it isn't Keaton's "The General", Chaplin's "City Lights", or even "Caddyshack" but it was a fun experience and much better than most of Woody Allen's recent work. One note on the audio commentary-were these people drunk?

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Summary: Not Your Typical Garage Sale
Review: Great characters and an amusing tale make this well worth watching. Of particular note are the two jokers whose whole exsistance seems to revolve around a keg of beer and a good buzz. Brian Turner is hilarious.

Rating:
Summary: Not Your Typical Garage Sale
Review: Great characters and an amusing tale make this well worth watching. Of particular note are the two jokers whose whole exsistance seems to revolve around a keg of beer and a good buzz. Brian Turner is hilarious.

Rating:
Summary: Definitely worth viewing
Review: I loved this movie because it rang true, which all good comedy should.
If for nothing else, watch it for some very funny one liners.

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Summary: my opinion_a waste of money_this is not a regular movie.
Review: in my opinion,this is a no star!
just a video with audio comentary after it was made.
not a regular movie one would expect on dvd format.
i was left feeling ripped off.
i wonder why amazon.com would sell this type of dvd.
i would like my money back.