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Danny Deckchair
Directed by
Jeff Balsmeyer
PG-13
2003
1h 40m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.7
55%
77%
6.0
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An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.
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Cast of Danny Deckchair
Rhys Ifans
Danny Morgan
Miranda Otto
Glenda Lake
Justine Clarke
Trudy Dunphy
Rhys Muldoon
Sandy Upman
John Batchelor
Pete
Alan Flower
Ray Vitali
Julie Sobotta
Kate (as Jules Sobotta)
Brian Langsworth
Real Estate Agent
Steve Rassios
Real Estate Agent (as Steven Rassios)
Madeleine James
Real Estate Agent
Jane Ruggiero
Donna
Gina Bortolin
Helen Costas
Duncan Young
Phil Stubbs
Garrie Scott
Party Shop Assistant
Richard Johnson
Passerby
Dina Gillespie
Kaz
Rod Zuanic
Bob
Ross Perrelli
Young Bobby
Victoria Nucifora
Young Lisa
Gyton Grantley
Stuey
Danny Deckchair Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Pleasant little diversion with some sweet moments.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Balsmeyer may remind you of the guy at the party who, after one too many shots, puts a lampshade on his head. It's funny for maybe a moment -- until you realize, to your horror, that he doesn't know when to stop.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
As for the charm factor, I can't think of any screen couple this year with more of such an elusive quality than Ms. Otto and Mr. Ifans.
Dallas Morning News
Charles Ealy
Such sentiments are fine, of course, but they're not the ingredients of groundbreaking filmmaking. We've been over this territory ad nauseum.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
An entertaining flight of fancy.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Simply too frothy for its own good, and the feel-good comedy on tap here might as well be the swiftly settling head on the world's blandest beer.
Washington Post
Sara Gebhardt
A delightful, well-acted illustration of an unhappy person's breakout from his mundane existence.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
You'll probably forget Danny Deckchair a few minutes after leaving the theater, but it passes the time well enough while you're there.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
What finally prevents Danny Deckchair from floating away completely is Balsmeyer's seemingly sincere admiration for those Trudy dismisses as 'the little people,' rendered here with as much respect as eccentricity.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Like its hero, the film has nary a mean-spirited bone. Only like Danny, it's a rather slight body.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A splendid movie while its hero is preparing for his flight and actually experiencing it, but it's not nearly as interesting once he descends to earth.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
What you might call conditional whimsy, predicated on the audience overlooking so many plot implausibilities that it might get tuckered out from all the charity.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
A (literally) lighter-than-air story, full of goofs and creeps and fools and silliness, it manages to delight without simpering, make points without lecturing and break hearts and mend them again without turning you weepy.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
Despite the soaring novelty of Danny's getaway, and despite the unfailing, scruffy sweetness Ifans brings to every scene, writer-director Jeff Balsmeyer borrows too heavily from other films.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Danny's a nice enough guy and it's a nice enough movie, if your standards aren't too strict and your tastes not too elitist -- and you don't get overly miffed about huge gaping plot holes all over a movie.
Premiere Magazine
Peter Debruge
In Balsmeyer's hands, Danny's story comes to seem every bit as awkward as the character himself, and the movie, like the balloon ride that inspired it, ultimately falls flat.
USA Today
Mike Clark
A soothing antidote to some of the summer's high-priced Hollywood clunkers.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Balsmeyer can't seem to make up his mind whether he's making a gentle romantic comedy with heartfelt trimmings, or a full-court Aussie farce.
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Hail globalism: Sweet, dumb American movies can now be made anywhere in the world.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
What starts off as a spin on The Wizard of Oz turns into one of those Frank Capra-esque excursions into candy land populism with its windy homilies about 'nobodies' like Danny finding their inner 'somebodies.'
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