Danny Deckchair Page #2

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life in suburban Australia and blasts into the skies in a chair tied with helium balloons. A mighty thunderstorm blows him clean off the map, and spits him out far away over the lush green town of Clarence. In this new town, he rockets into the world of Glenda, the town's only parking cop. While the media back home becomes obsessed with the story of his disappearance, Danny gets to reinvent himself in this new town, and in his great adventure, he discovers a true soulmate in Glenda. 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. Saying farewell to Trudy, Danny makes a dynamic
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Jeff Balsmeyer
Production: Lions Gate Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
PG-13
Year:
2003
100 min
Website
143 Views


and he is doing something weird.

He just doesn't know

what to do with himself.

- I know it sounds cruel.

- No, go on.

Well, things are really

taking off for me.

You know...

you want to know what?

Danny...

Well, Danny's a cement man.

He'll never be anything

but a cement man.

Oh, I'm not saying

he is dull or anything but...

...he's one of the little people.

You know what I mean?

Hi, Danny.

- Trudy here?

- You just missed her.

- She just stepped out with...

- Sandy, do you have a listing.

...for that house down on

the waterfront, you know the old...

I thought you had

to go away this week.

Right, right,

I was supposed to go away...

...but... well, it was a bit

of an emergency, Danny.

- My brother had...

- I thought it was your sister.

No, it was my brother.

She's all right now.

It was a bloody awful thing, Danny.

It was a very close call. Danny!

It's the kind of prose... I don't

want to use names like Dylan Thomas.

Sandy Upman...

- Sandy! Up the mighty Saints

- You know it, buddy.

You see his bum crack

was showing?

Hey, what're you waiting for?

Come on!

What are you looking at?

Polka dots.

I went by your office today.

I was gonna surprise you for lunch.

I saw Ray there.

You know what?

He's been there all week.

No, he didn't, he just got back,

just this morning.

He got back early.

He went to his sister's...

I don't think Ray even has a sister.

What's going on?

Oh, nothing is going on!

- What's all this business about...

- Okay, I lied.

But only because I didn't want to go

on some stupid camping trip.

- So we could have gone on holiday?

- Yeah, sure.

We could have gone and sat

in a leaky tent for two weeks.

What kind of a holiday

is that, Danny?

I thought you wanted

to go camping.

Well... No.

But we've been planning it all year.

I told you to go ahead

and go by yourself.

Yeah, well maybe I will.

Fine. What?

So now you're gonna go!

And what do I tell all our friends

we've invited to the barbie?

What barbie?

This weekend,

the long weekend.

It's your barbie!

I'm standing here.

On the ground.

The sky above

won't fall down...

- Thanks, Clair.

- Okay, see you.

Don't change for you.

Don't change a thing

for me.

Yeah... Right.

- Hi!

- Hi.

- Come in. I'll take this.

- Hi, how you doing?

- So how was lunch?

- Shh.

Hey, hey!

Oy, oy.

- I love that top.

- Hey, what's up?

I've got something to show you.

- What?

- Yeah, right...

Oh, yeah.

What do they do?

Then after lunch, he said...

"Why don't we go for drive?"

And I said, "Okay. "

And we ended up in Avalon.

- Avalon?

- Uh-huh.

And get this...

we went for a walk on the beach.

- No way!

- Mm-hmm.

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