Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Rhys Ifans | ... | Danny Morgan | |
Miranda Otto | ... | Glenda Lake | |
Justine Clarke | ... | Trudy Dunphy | |
Rhys Muldoon | ... | Sandy Upman | |
John Batchelor | ... | Pete | |
Alan Flower | ... | Ray Vitali | |
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Julie Wood | ... | Kate (as Jules Sobotta) |
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Brian Langsworth | ... | Real Estate Agent |
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Steve Rassios | ... | Real Estate Agent (as Steven Rassios) |
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Madeleine James | ... | Real Estate Woman |
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Jane Ruggiero | ... | Donna |
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Gina Bortolin | ... | Helen Costas |
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Duncan Young | ... | Phil Stubbs |
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Garrie Scott | ... | Party Shop Assistant |
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Richard Johnson | ... | Passerby |
Sydneysider Danny Morgan, a simple man who works for a concrete company, is prone to daydreaming to escape his life, those daydreams often of his unique ideas. Of late, those daydreams have been about his and his longtime girlfriend Trudy Dunphy's imminent vacation, a camping trip which Danny has been planning for a year. Eventually learning that Trudy, a real estate agent, lied to get out of the trip to spend time with a famous client, television sportscaster Sandy Upman, is just the latest manifestation that Trudy is drifting away from Danny, who she sees as just a concrete man while she aspires to something or someone more exciting like Sandy. With the vacation now a no-go leaving him with a couple of weeks free with nothing to do but have his mind wander, Danny, with an unexpected windfall of free giant balloons, ponders whether they, filled with helium and tied to a deckchair, would be able to lift him in the deckchair up into the air. Danny's balloon deckchair experiment will ... Written by Huggo
Greetings again from the darkness. In this charming little comedy from down under, Writer/Director Jeff Balsmeyer takes us inside the lives of 2 people we really like and one ... well maybe not so much. The 3 lead actors are excellent in their roles, especially Rhys Ifan (Notting Hill and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands). Miranda Otto plays the parking cop who brings him back to life, while Justine Clark is tremendous as the glory seeking user that we have all met at least once. The story, while getting started in a very unique manner, settles into a traditional little romantic comedy for awhile. What makes this one a little different is watching the changes in the faces of the three leads. They each experience joy and heartbreak in their own way. This one deserves a look.