Tiny Furniture


Tiny Furniture is a 2010 American independent comedydrama written by, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham.

Having been dumped by her boyfriend after graduation, Aura Lena Dunham moves back home to her mothers loft in TriBeCa for the summer. Auras plan is to save money until her friend Frankie finishes her degree and moves from Ohio to the city where they plan on being roommates. Shortly after arriving she goes to a party where she meets Jed, a mildly successful filmmaker who puts his work on YouTube and runs into her childhood friend Charlotte Jemima Kirke. Charlotte, a recovering drug addict, helps Aura to land a minimum wage job as a hostess at a restaurant. The news that she has landed a job is quickly overshadowed by the fact that her younger sister, Nadine, has won a prestigious poetry prize for high school students. Aura begins to feel anxious in comparison to her puttogether younger sister and resents the close bond between Nadine and their mother.Depressed Aura begins to spend time with Jed, who is couchsurfing as his agent tries to land him a TV development deal, and flirts with Keith David Call a junior chef at the restaurant. When her mother and sister leave for a week in order to tour colleges Aura invites Jed to stay with her. Jed proves a lazy guest who asks Aura to let him extend his visit even after her mother comes home. After annoying her mother with his entitled attitude, Aura is forced to kick him out. Meanwhile her flirtation with Keith hits a snag when she discovers he has a girlfriend and only seems interested in her ability to obtain prescription pills through Charlotte. After Keith stands her up when they make plans to get high together Aura quits her restaurant job and tells a bewildered Frankie that she no longer can move in with her as her mother needs her too much. ........

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