The Garden has been hailed by critics as the most astute and powerful political film of the year. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy brilliantly captures, in a series of explosive and wrenching events, the ways greedy developers, inept politicians and self-serving "community" leaders can wreak havoc over the lives of working class families fighting to save the 14-acre urban farm that has become their very source of survival. Equal parts The Wire and Harlan County, USA, The Garden exposes the fault lines in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
As battle lines are drawn between this group of low-income families struggling to protect their land against a backdrop of grey and hardened skyscrapers, their cause becomes an international sensation that draws the attention of numerous notable activists and politicians, including Dennis Kucinich, Danny Glover and Willie Nelson.
