Garden State (2004)

Acting.

Zach Braff plays an actor in Los Angeles who has apparently refused to speak to his father in New Jersey for some time. When his father calls to inform him that his mother is dead, Braff flies home for her funeral. He hangs around with his quirky friends and with Natalie Portman. 

His father is a psychiatrist. In spite of being alienated from him for years, Braff has continued taking the medication he prescribed for him all this time. It has left him unable to feel emotion which you'd think would be a serious impediment for an actor, but that may have been the point.

I watched a little of it, didn't like it. I googled it and read something explaining why people once liked it but later turned against it and against Braff himself. Something about an anti-hipster backlash. 

I liked it better after reading that and watched the rest. 

Just seemed kind of middling. People enthused over Braff's taste in music when it came out and I guess it was good although music doesn't interest me. He's like Woody Allen going through his record collection for music for his movies.