Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair is a 2003 Australian comedy film written and directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. The majority of Danny Deckchair was shot in Bellingen, a Mid North Coast town in New South Wales.

Danny Morgan Ifans works as a concrete maker driver and construction worker who lives in a big Australian city with his girlfriend but is unhappy with his life. Danny yearns for the simple life while girlfriend Trudy Clarke fantasizes about bright lights and fast times. While Danny plans for their annual camping trip, Trudy tells him she has to work, so the trip is off. In reality, Trudy is using her work connections at a local real estate agency to set up a meeting with a handsome local sports reporter, Sandy Upman Muldoon. Danny sees them together while hes shopping for a weekend barbecue, leaving him even more disenchanted with their relationship.During the barbecue in his backyard, Danny, being an inventive character, ties a bunch of heliumfilled balloons to his deckchair as his friends hold him down. When they inadvertently let go, Danny is set on an airborne adventure across Australia, which causes him to become a national sensation. As he floats over idyllically beautiful rural landscapes, totally foreign to the concrete structures of his discontent, he appears on the verge of some enlightenment. After hes beaten up in a rugged ride through a thunderstorm, fireworks from a small towns macademia festival burst his balloons. Danny lands in a tree in Glendas front yard as the remnants of his chair float away. ........

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