Danny Deckchair

(lions gate) Release Date: July 30, 2004 Director: Jeff Balsmeyer Cast: Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon, Andrew Crabbe Plot: An Australian cement truck driver, Danny, decides to try to escape his life in the drabness of the city after a fight with his girlfriend prevents him from taking a long-awaited vacation. Tying large helium-filled balloons to his deckchair, Danny sails away into the sky, where a surprise thunderstorm sends him hurtling out over the Outback, eventually finding a small town to settle down in incognito, while the media whips itself into a flurry about his disappearance. Reinventing himself in the small northern town of Clarence, Danny soon falls in love with the town's only parking cop, Glenda Website: www.dannydeckchair.com/