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	newtimesbpb.com \| \| Film \| Live, Baby, Live \| 2004-09-02
		Danny's sudden appearance stirs much gossip among the denizens of Clarence, who are all dutifully called by name even though most of them don't advance the narrative a lick.
		Glenda attempts to pass Danny off as her former professor, allows him to crash in her cozy, sun-drenched bungalow (the cinematography by Martin McGrath is top-notch), and brings him to the macadamia festival's semiformal ball, which plays like a delirious Baz Luhrmann sequence.
		Although we have witnessed her constantly insulting Danny and deceitfully carrying on with a wannabe television news icon (Rhys Muldoon), once Danny is actually gone, she weeps in agony and practices two-bit starfucking techniques with the smarmy newshound.
	www.newtimesbpb.com /issues/2004-09-02/film2.html (780 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Danny Deckchair
		Danny Morgan (Rhys Ifans) toils hard as a cement worker for 50 weeks a year and dreams about flying away to the far north of Australia and camping in the wild.
		As Danny solicits votes for Big Jim, he becomes increasingly engrossed in life in the charming town and learns that he is becoming quite fond of the people, especially pretty Glenda.
		A plus for “Danny Deckchair” is the sweet, likable performance provided by Miranda Otto as the town’s sole parking cop who immediately falls for the man who fell to earth.
	www.reelingreviews.com /dannydeckchair.htm (746 words)

	Danny Deckchair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Danny Deckchair" is an irresistible escapist fantasy bolstered by charmed performances, and a warm, light-hearted script.
		Danny Deckchair Rhys Ifans (Hugh Grant’s roommate in "Notting Hill") and Mirando Otto, whom we last saw as Eowyn of Rohan in the last two films of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
		What’s especially appealing about "Danny Deckchair" is how low-key it is. It’s a story based on character and not style.
	www.inkandashes.net /danny_deckchair.html (584 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: DANNY DECKCHAIR
		Accordingly, she suddenly decides to say that Danny is her former professor and friend, and he goes along with that.
		Danny inflates huge balloons with some sort of lighter than air gas and then ties them to his lawn chair in hopes of lifting off with them.
		Danny bangs into a tree at the end of his parachuting run (but is okay).
	www.screenit.com /movies/2004/danny_deckchair.html (2021 words)

	A Movie Parable: Danny Deckchair
		Danny Deckchair provides the answer to a question few people ever thought to ask.
		Rhys Ifans stars as Danny Morgan, a cement worker who is so bored with his mundane life that he turns to silly stunts and antics simply because he's got nothing better to do.
		When he was living in Sydney, Danny considered himself to be one of the "little people" - an insignificant individual who, like many others, lived from day to day and from paycheck to paycheck with nothing to look forward to but his holidays.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/dannydck.asp (613 words)

	Danny Deckchair
		As a movie, Danny Deckchair recycles too many familiar elements, and it is only co-stars Ifans (Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, The Shipping News) and Miranda Otto's (Close Your Eyes, The Return of the King) cute chemistry together that is worth watching.
		But one of the big logical lapses in Danny Deckchair is that while this story is national, for some reason nobody shows a picture of Danny in the news, thus everyone in Clarence is in the dark.
		Danny and Glenda aren't that interesting only because they are like every other couple in romantic comedies.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/danny_deckchair.html (595 words)

	Danny Deckchair Movie: Danny Deckchair DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Disgruntled with his life as a laborer in Sydney, Australia, Danny takes off--literally--by tying a bunch of balloons to a deckchair, and ascending to the skies.
		The naive townsfolk he encounters in Clarence prove to be a grand source of inspiration to Danny, and he proceeds to teach them how to live life to the fullest, while enjoying a passionate romance with Glenda.
		But Danny's past life is not totally behind him, and when it catches up to him, his blissful new existence comes under serious threat.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/031398166726IE (308 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: DANNY DECKCHAIR
		It's common for manufacturers of any number of vehicles to advertise their offerings as a means of "getting away from it all." Whether it's your personal motorcycle, car or RV, or a trip on an airline or cruise ship, the promise is that they'll help you escape your problems, worries and/or humdrum life.
		Like Dorothy's spinning bed (from "The Wizard of Oz") and any number of other transport devices, the deckchair trip is one of those cinematic constructs that allow a character to escape their troubles and/or open their eyes to the error of their ways.
		The subplot featuring Danny's girlfriend - Justine Clarke("Bootmen," "Blackrock") -- somewhat running off with a TV talent - Rhys Muldoon (making his feature debut) -- and then reveling in the media spotlight has some potential, be it straight comedy or more satire.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2004/danny_deckchair.html (1027 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - Danny Deckchair
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		I hear many people describing Danny Deckchair as the true story of the guy who tied balloons to his lawn chair and soared into the crosshairs of the FAA radar before ultimately landing on the Darwin Awards scorecard.
		Danny is appointed as campaign manager for one of the candidates, giving him a sense of purpose and allowing him to, for the first time in his life, feel useful.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2004/dannydeckchair.htm (723 words)

	Premiere Magazine: Danny Deckchair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As portrayed by Notting Hill's Rhys Ifans, Danny is a Tom Green–like social misfit and spontaneous loon full of "crazy ideas" (as suggested by a split-second flashback in which Danny tests his idea for the "human slingshot"), who takes to the skies to escape his dead-end life in Sydney.
		Danny's balloon ride – which makes for five minutes of purely magical cinema amidst so much hogwash – is solid gold for the Australian news media (who presumably have nothing better to report).
		When you think about it, Danny Deckchair might easily have become the next Forrest Gump, a whimsical fairy tale of a movie meant to ignite the imaginations of like-minded restless souls, were it not for the fact that the entire film had been edited with the breathless urgency of your average movie trailer.
	www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=2&article_id=1753 (375 words)

	'Danny Deckchair' an impotent tease - The Washington Times: Entertainment - August 27, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Deckchair," a wisp of a comedy built around a Sydney man who escapes his humdrum life by tying helium balloons to his chair and soaring up, up and away.
		She lets Danny stay with her, telling friends and a jealous fellow cop that he's an old professor pal.
		The chemistry experiment between the two is the most potent elixir of "Danny Deckchair," particularly when the two are sharing their first slow dance.
	washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20040826-094056-9710r.htm (509 words)

	Danny Deckchair
		Danny Deckchair stars the usually reliable Rhys Ifans, known for his scene-stealing supporting stints in films like Notting Hill and The Shipping News.
		It seems Danny’s live-in girlfriend Trudy (Justine Clarke) might be cheating on him with a handsome local TV broadcaster (Rhys Muldoon) to help her move up the ladder as a real-estate agent.
		Danny gets negative vibes from Trudy’s reaction to wanting to go on a camping trip and would rather be up, up and away, though he doesn’t think it could really happen.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/dannydeckchair.htm (400 words)

	Review: Danny Deckchair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Danny Deckchair stars Welsh actor Rhys Ifans as Danny, a concrete mason living in Sydney, who, fed up with his day-to-day routine and the seeming indifference of his live-in girlfriend, Trudy (Justine Clarke), ties a bunch of helium-filled balloons to his favorite deck chair and ends up going on an unexpected trip.
		However, Danny decides that he doesn't want to go back to his old life - he'd rather live in the obscurity of Clarence and settle down with the woman he loves than accept his 15 minutes of fame and return to his problem-filled existence with Trudy.
		Danny Deckchair is a safe, generic motion picture that, while not offensive in its lack of freshness, is more clumsy than endearing.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/danny_deckchair.html (558 words)

	FilmJerk.com - Film Review: Danny Deckchair
		It is while picking up supplies for the party where Danny comes up with his latest ruse: to tie a bunch of helium filled balloons to a deck chair and see if it would lift Danny off the ground.
		When one rocket explodes in front of Danny’s deckchair, several of the balloons catch fire, sending the shoddy flying contraption Earthbound in a hurry, landing in the backyard of Glenda (Miranda Otto), Clarence’s only meter maid.
		Danny and Glenda are the heart and soul of the film, and without the magical chemistry of Ifans and Otto together the story would fall flat.
	www.filmjerk.com /new/article1001.html (654 words)

	'Danny Deckchair' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ifans is the title character in "Danny Deckchair" and although he starts off like Spike with shaggy hair and scraggly beard, he morphs into a debonair head-turner.
		In "Danny Deckchair," Ifans is a klutzy cement truck driver named Danny, who is looking forward to his annual camping trip with his live-in girlfriend, Trudy (Justine Clarke), who works at a real estate office.
		Lest you think Danny is daft, the movie's production notes assure us that "a man in the UK went up in a banana chair, a guy in California went up in a patio chair and a woman in Denmark went up with just a harness attached to her limbs.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04247/372454.stm (531 words)

	Danny Deckchair
		Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons.
		Fate catches up with him eventually, as Danny's true identity is revealed and Trudy--now a tabloid celebrity--comes to the idyllic town to claim Danny and drag him back to Sydney.
		Danny, however, is a changed man; he's discovered what it means to be happy and has found a new self-worth.
	www.infoplease.com /movies/43425 (238 words)

	Danny Deckchair - Thursday, 09/16/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Danny Deckchair is in the tradition, too, of the endearing, winsome comedies of the increasingly forgotten Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl, Local Hero) — movies that don't just exhibit eccentrics as narrative pets, but love them as human beings.
		An Australian cement truck driver, Danny (Ifans), decides to try to escape his life in the drabness of the city after a fight with his girlfriend (Clarke) prevents him from taking a long-awaited vacation.
		Tying large helium-filled balloons to his deckchair (ie, a lawn chair), Danny sails away into the sky, where a surprise thunderstorm sends him hurtling out over the Outback, eventually finding a small town to settle down in incognito, while the media whips itself into a flurry about his disappearance.
	www.nashvillerage.com /movies/archives/04/09/58050109.shtml (514 words)

	Danny Deckchair (2004): Reviews
		Danny Deckchair may be a trifle, but it offers a breezy lift for the dog days of summer.
		The most interesting aspect of Danny Deckchair, though, may be that the film is based on the true story.
		Danny Deckchair offers some welcome cinematic comfort food in a summer filled with bloated special-effects movies and bad teen comedies.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dannydeckchair (744 words)

	New York Daily News - Entertainment Columnists - Jack Mathews: Danny Deckchair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Set and filmed in Australia but written and directed by American Jeff Balsmeyer, "Danny Deckchair" is a fable about a restless Sydney truck driver who, after learning that his girlfriend is cheating on him, flies off in a lawn chair connected to a cluster of helium balloons.
		The sentiment is there - in both the budding romance between Danny and Glenda and in his transformation from working stiff to populist hero - but it's done with an easy, graceful, light-handed touch that doesn't clash with the film's whimsical tone of near magic realism.
		But anybody looking for realism after Danny's flight over Sydney's skyscrapers, through an electrical storm and into the fireworks display that ignites his balloons and brings him down in a glowing streak is at the wrong movie.
	www.nydailynews.com /08-11-2004/entertainment/col/story/220891p-189880c.html (723 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Review - Danny Deckchair
		Danny (Rhys Ifans) drives a cement truck in Sydney, but he desperately needs a vacation.
		While Danny is enjoying the simple life of a small-town celebrity and Glenda's company, everyone back in Sydney is searching for him, which shines the spotlight on Trudy.
		Danny has this amazing adventure that changes his life, but also changes everyone he comes in contact with by letting them know it's okay to live their dreams.
	www.themoviechicks.com /mid2004/mcrdannydeckchair.html (406 words)

	Imaginative 'Danny Deckchair' escapes the romantic-comedy genre: 4/ 2/ 2005
		"Danny Deckchair," therefore, probably has little chance of being any kind of success in this country, as it lacks major stars or a typical romantic-comedy storyline and setting, but what it has that most of its counterparts lack is imagination.
		Ifans plays Danny, a bored cement truck driver whose upcoming camping trip in the country provides his only escape from his dreary life in the city of Sydney.
		Yet, even as he begins anew, Danny and his flight have become a worldwide news event, in a strange twist that threatens to send him back to his old life.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/04-05/04-02-05/c02li073.htm (646 words)

	Danny Deckchair (2003)
		The first and hopefully last film of writer-director Jeff Balsmeyer, Danny Deckchair follows the sad sack hero's high-flying journey of self-discovery from the big city to one of those charming backwaters that only exist in the movies.
		Danny Deckchair is not a film that begins promisingly and falls apart.
		For instance, when Danny crashes in her backyard, Glenda doesn't bother to ask his name or how he got here; she instead tells everyone that he's an old friend and opens her home to him without another word (Huh?).
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=139228&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13 (545 words)

	Review: Danny Deckchair (***)
		DANNY DECKCHAIR A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO **): * DANNY DECKCHAIR is a real sweetheart of an adult fairy tale from the Land Down Under.
		Danny Morgan (Ifans) is a restless man who, with his scruffy beard and his long stringy hair, looks like a hermit.
		Danny's journey out of this world into a better one turns him into a national celebrity, which means that all of the camera crews and reporters spend their time turning Trudy into one too.
	www.pahealthsystems.com /message65572.html (676 words)

	The New York Times > Movies > Movie Review \| 'Danny Deckchair': Up, Up and Away, With Many Balloons
		Danny has already overheard her complaining to a friend that he is one of the world's "little people" who are going nowhere.
		Danny's ride, which carries him past skyscrapers, through a thunderstorm and over lush, rolling countryside, ends when a burst of fireworks from a small town, Clarence, precipitates his crash landing in the yard of Glenda (Miranda Otto), the town's only parking cop.
		An attractive single woman, Glenda covers for Danny when the police arrive imagining that the deck chair was a U.F.O. Without telling her his identity, he poses as one of her former professors, paying a visit.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/08/11/movies/11deck.html?ex=1249963200&en=38759e3dd060f449&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (770 words)

	"Danny Deckchair" (2004) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The meaningful relationship Danny develops with Glenda (Miranda Otto) when he flies off to the small Australian town of Clarence is contrasted with the shallow romances that appear throughout the story.
		Danny and Miranda do sleep together, as do Trudy and her newscaster boyfriend, but none of it is shown.
		In the beginning, Danny's girlfriend Trudy makes a comment about how Danny is just "one of the little people." She says he's not dull, but we know she isn't crazy about him.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/dannydeckchair.html (838 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Danny Deckchair
		Danny Deckchair is an unchallenging romantic comedy that begins with its quirky character’s balloon-and-chair experiment but never flies as high as the film’s leading man. Writer/director Jeff Balsmeyer injects his script with the universal desire to fit in, to be accepted despite one’s obvious faults.
		Clarke’s eyes sell a spark between Danny and Trudy that burned much brighter when these characters were younger pups, and Otto’s the type of girl-next-door you root for when love is on the line.
		Deckchair welcomes that crowd back to theaters, and awaits their return with open arms.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/ac469927a556fa7988256efb000864b1?OpenDocument (645 words)

	Danny Deckchair
		Danny Morgan (Rhys Ifans) is a builder’s labourer living in Sydney whose inattention at a crucial moment when pouring wet cement results in his falling in, for the second time in a week, to be pulled out by his exasperated workmates.
		Danny’s partner Trudy (Justine Clarke) is a gung-ho real estate agent whose idea of a holiday does not match Danny’s of flying to Port Douglas and camping in a tent.
		When the opportunity arises for her to show rising star TV sportscaster Sandy Upman (Rhys Muldoon) some property when she is supposed to be on holiday with Danny, her eyes glaze over in turn and she hands Danny a pack of lies, which he soon discovers, to put the holiday off.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/mSsKZLiKoxbZLbUi (804 words)

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