The Garden(2008) Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy's politically charged, Oscar-nominated documentary follows a group of low-income families struggling to protect a 14-acre urban farm in the middle of South Central Los Angeles from bureaucratic real estate developers. A lightning rod for controversy in 2004, this cause célèbre drew the attention of numerous notable activists and politicians, including Dennis Kucinich, Joan Baez and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigoisa.
Movie #32 "The Garden" (see above for the plot) certainly deserved the academy award nomination for documentary. Boy, if you want to get angry at the screen, try this film ------- it'll make your blood boil ----- actually, it is emotionally charged throughout. You get sucked into the story from the first guy you meet to the last shot of the same guy . I had no idea about the garden, but it makes me want to visit the area now just after seeing the film about it and knowing the story. I haven't felt this way about a documentary since "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" -- if you don't normally like documentaries, see this one --- it just may change your mind
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