The Puffy Chair

Dejected by his failure to achieve fame as a New York City indie-rocker and unable to figure out just when it was that his life took a sharp turn for the worse, a small-town boy who had once harbored big dreams for the future sets out on a cross-country adventure to give his father a birthday the ...more

It's not easy to make romantic baby talk sound realistic on film. Scripted shmoopy talk tends to be full of clichés, rather than expressing the untranslatable language that evolves from the personal experiences and inside jokes of two people. That The Puffy Chair gets this delicate touch down perfectly is one of the earliest indicators what kind of film it will be: it's so natural, it gives the audience the experience of eavesdropping on its three principle characters during one defining ...more