Garden State

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• The Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles in the beginning is actually a Thai restaurant - Sea in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Walking through the kitchen the background voices can be heard conversing in Thai, not Vietnamese.
• Natalie Portman was Braff's first choice for the role of Sam but he never thought he would get her.
• Zach Braff drew partially on knowledge from his mother, a psychologist, his stepfather, also a psychologist, and his step mother, a therapist, to give scenes involving mentions of psychiatrics and pharmaceuticals authenticity.
• At the funeral, there is a picture of Andrew's mother on display. The woman in the picture is actress Diane Salinger.