Garden State (film)
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Garden State is a 2004 American romantic comedy drama film, written and directed by Zach Braff, and starring him, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard and Ian Holm. The film centers on Andrew Largeman, a
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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A Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a stock character in fiction: a young woman with eccentric personality quirks who serves as the romantic interest for an everyman protagonist. The term was coined in 2007 b
Garden State (film)
…coasts on this considerable charm until it hits a brick wall in its final segments". Natalie Portman's character Sam has been used as an example of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope, a term that was coined soon after Garden State was released, though in reference to another movie. Empire placed Garden State at number 393 on…
Katharine Hepburn's role as Susan Vance in the 1938 screwball comedy film Bringing Up Baby has been described as an early example of the character.
Kirsten Dunst (pictured in 2007), whose character in Elizabethtown inspired the term MPDG
Actress Zooey Deschanel (pictured in 2012) has criticized her frequent characterization as a MPDG