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Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair

Comedy · Romance · Drama · 2003

An unappreciated laborer's patience reaches breaking point when his girlfriend cancels a romantic holiday. Making light of the situation, he decides to tie hundreds of helium balloons to a chair in an outlandish bid to float to a new life.

Movie details

Danny Deckchair

“For anyone who ever dreamed of taking off.”

2003 Comedy · Romance · Drama 1h 40m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.7 / 10

5.3K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

55 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

56 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

An unappreciated laborer's patience reaches breaking point when his girlfriend cancels a romantic holiday. Making light of the situation, he decides to tie hundreds of helium balloons to a chair in an outlandish bid to float to a new life.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jeff Balsmeyer

Written by

Jeff Balsmeyer

Rhys Ifans

Rhys Ifans

Danny Morgan

Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto

Glenda Lake

Justine Clarke

Justine Clarke

Trudy Dunphy

Rhys Muldoon

Rhys Muldoon

Sandy Upman

John Batchelor

John Batchelor

Pete

Alan Flower

Alan Flower

Ray Vitali

J

Julie Sobotta

Kate (as Jules Sobotta)

Court is in session

Put Danny Deckchair on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.