Synopsis: 22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother’s Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows,” prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother’s neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.
Release Date: November 12, 2010 MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Film Review
Production
Twenty-two year old Aura has just come home from college in Ohio with a degree in film theory and no idea what to do with herself. “I’m in a post-graduate delirium,” she says. Tiny Furniture plays like a post-graduate, post-The Graduate-quarter-life crises of Woody Allen if Woody Allen was a twenty-two year old girl. [To read the full review of this film please refer to our Anaheim International Film Festival coverage in the Frame of Mind section here.]
Cast and Crew
- Director(s): Lena Dunham
- Producer(s): Lena Dunham
- Screenwriter(s): Lena Dunham (Aura)Grace Dunham (Nadine)Alex Karpovsky (Jed)
- Story: David Call (Keith)
- Cast: Merritt Wever (Frankie)Jemima Kirke (Charlotte) Lance Edmands
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- Cinematographer: Teddy Blanks
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- Country Of Origin: USA
