About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
Director:
Lena DunhamWriter:
Lena Dunham
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5 wins & 8 nominations.
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| Lena Dunham | ... | Aura | |
| Laurie Simmons | ... | Siri | |
| Grace Dunham | ... | Nadine | |
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Rachel Howe | ... | Candice |
| Merritt Wever | ... | Frankie | |
| Amy Seimetz | ... | Ashlynn | |
| Alex Karpovsky | ... | Jed | |
| Jemima Kirke | ... | Charlotte | |
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Garland Hunter | ... | Noelle |
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Isen Ritchie | ... | Jacob |
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Sarah Sophie Flicker | ... | Julia |
| David Call | ... | Keith | |
| Jody Lee Lipes | ... | Bus Boy | |
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Charlotte Istel | ... | Drunk Girl |
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Peter Rosenblum | ... | No Pants Kid |
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About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
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Aura would like you to know that she is having a very, very hard time.Parents Guide:
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Aura: Honey, I'm home... Family?
Candice: Downstairs...
Siri: Can you turn your right toe slightly towards me?
Nadine: It hurts.
Siri: Perfect.
[click]
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Performed by Sonia's Party! & The Everyone's Invited
Written by Sonia Kreitzer & Deke Shipp
Published by Sonia Kreitzer
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Keith talks about "tentacle rape," which does exist in Japanese anime. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Aura: Honey, I'm home... Family?
Candice: Downstairs...
Siri: Can you turn your right toe slightly towards me?
Nadine: It hurts.
Siri: Perfect.
[click]
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Crying In VainPerformed by Sonia's Party! & The Everyone's Invited
Written by Sonia Kreitzer & Deke Shipp
Published by Sonia Kreitzer
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30 March 2012 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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$65,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$21,235, 14 November 2010Gross USA:
$391,674Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Written and directed by Lena Dunham, who also acted the part of the lead character, Aura, "Tiny Furniture" is a worthy accomplishment for a variety of reasons. Most importantly - with a budget of $50K - it demonstrates the production quality that can be achieved with minimal funds and a skeleton crew. The film tells the story of a young woman, just graduated from from film studies at Oberlin and upset over a recent romantic break-up, who returns to her artist mother's Tribeca apartment in New York where a younger sister also resides. Even if the storyline is seriously thin, the result is a witty look at the supposedly crucial dilemmas of an immature, privileged, self-absorbed female college graduate who finds herself on the threshold of adulthood. Coincidentally (or probably not) this narrative framework mirrored Ms Dunham's real-life circumstances at the time when she made the film - and she utilized her own mother, sister and friends to play their respective parts in this fictionalized version of her homecoming.
The film leads us through a sequence of Aura's everyday issues that she consistently turns into minor melodramas. These include communication issues with her mother, free-loading boyfriends, infantile sibling rivalry confrontations, employment problems and humiliating sexual misadventures - all of which are portrayed with a mixture of ironic humor and pathos. "Tiny Furniture" is beautifully photographed on a Canon Digital SLR, and the entire cast give appropriately cosmopolitan performances, with Jemima Kirke stealing the show as Aura's hilariously out-to-lunch BFF Charlotte.