Movie
Danny Deckchair
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2003-05-16
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate Films, Crusader Entertainment, Cobalt Media Group, MacQuarie Film Television Investment Fund
- Country
- Australia
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Rhys Ifans as Danny Morgan
- Miranda Otto as Glenda Lake
- Justine Clarke as Trudy Dunphy
- Rhys Muldoon as Sandy Upman
- John Batchelor as Pete
- Alan Flower as Ray Vitali
- Julie Sobotta as Kate (as Jules Sobotta)
- Brian Langsworth as Real Estate Agent
- Steve Rassios as Real Estate Agent (as Steven Rassios)
- Madeleine James as Real Estate Agent
- Jane Ruggiero as Donna
- Gina Bortolin as Helen Costas
Crew
- Jeff Balsmeyer - Director
- Jeff Balsmeyer - Writer
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