The Puffy Chair

Infobox Film
name = The Puffy Chair


imdb_id = 0436689
writer = Mark Duplass
starring = Mark Duplass,
Kathryn Aselton,
Rhett Wilkins,
Bari Dahan,
Gerald Finnegan,
Julie Fischer
director = Jay Duplass
producer = Mark Duplass
distributor = Netflix,
Roadside Attractions
released = 2005
runtime = 85 min.
music =
awards =
language = English
budget =

"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. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement.

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

The film was shot on the Panasonic AG-DVX100A

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.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436689/ The Puffy Chair] at the IMDB
* [http://www.duplassbrothers.com/home.html The film's official website]
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/netflix.html Wired Magazine: Netflix Presents] , on the distribution of this film and others