Tiny Furniture (2010)

IMDb plot summary: About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.

Directed by Lena Dunham. Starring Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, and Grace Dunham.

Tiny Furniture is a film written by, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham as a recent college graduate who has moved back in with her mother and sister, unsure what she wants to do with her life moving forward. I haven't seen a lot of Dunham's work so I can't compare this with much, but it certainly has a distinct vibe to it, a sort of mishmash between mumblecore and overly erudite dialogue you might find in something by Aaron Sorkin. Our central character is hard to care about, as she casually manipulates everyone around her to no apparent end. Not that there can't be great movies made about selfish people, but there has to be *something* to hook us into the core of the story, and this doesn't have that. Because of that and the lack of character development, I remember some individual scenes from this movie but no narrative arc -- I can't even remember in which order scenes happen because they have so little impact on each other. I don't know that the movie is bad, per se, but it's definitely made with a specific style in mind and that style isn't for me.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Tiny Furniture < The Misfits

Tiny Furniture > My Friend Irma

Tiny Furniture < Sullivan's Travels

Tiny Furniture > Labor Day

Tiny Furniture > Footloose (2011)

Tiny Furniture < The Hurt Locker

Tiny Furniture > Kid 90

Tiny Furniture < Captain Fantastic

Tiny Furniture < Silk Stockings

Tiny Furniture < The Rescuers Down Under

Tiny Furniture < Gypsy (1962)

Tiny Furniture < Rigoletto

Final spot: #2318 out of 3575, or 35%.