The Puffy Chair

The Puffy Chair
Directed by
  • Jay Duplass
  • Mark Duplass (uncredited)
Produced by
  • Mark Duplass
  • Jay Duplass (uncredited)
Written by
Starring
  • Mark Duplass
  • Katie Aselton
  • Rhett Wilkins
  • Bari Dahan
  • Gerald Finnegan
  • Julie Fischer
Production
company
Distributed by Netflix
Release dates
Running time
 85 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $15,000
Box office $194,523[1]

The Puffy Chair is a 2005 road movie written and directed by the brothers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass.[2] It was screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. It is considered part of the Mumblecore movement. Extensive improvisation is used in the film. The Duplass' mother and father play the mother and father in the movie. The film was shot on the Panasonic AG-DVX100.

Plot

The film concerns the relationships between men, women, brothers, mothers, fathers and friends. The protagonist 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 in Atlanta takes interesting twists.

References

  1. ↑ "The Puffy Chair". Box Office Mojo.
  2. ↑ Scott, A. O. (August 4, 2006). "‘The Puffy Chair’ Tells the Story of a Trip to Atlanta (and to Adulthood)". The New York Times.

External links

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