The Puffy Chair

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The Puffy Chair
Directed by	Jay Duplass
Produced by	Mark Duplass
Written by	Mark Duplass
Starring	Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett Wilkins, Bari Dahan, Gerald Finnegan, Julie Fischer
Distributed by	Netflix, Roadside Attractions
Release date(s)	2005
Running time	85 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Puffy Chair is a 2005 comedy film directed by Jay Duplass, who co-wrote the movie with his brother Mark Duplass. It screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival.

The duo's mother and father play the mother and father in the movie as well.

[edit] Plot

The film concerns the relationships between men, women, brothers, mothers, fathers and friends. The central idea of the film is that one brother discovers on Ebay a replica of a lounge chair that was used by his father long ago. The resulting road trip to pick up and deliver the chair as a birthday present for the father takes interesting twists as it goes on. The movie has received generally negative and lukewarm public reception.

[edit] External links

• The Puffy Chair at the IMDB
• The film's official website
• Wired Magazine: Netflix Presents, on the distribution of this film and others