Synopsis
After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
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Cast
- Lena DunhamAura
- Laurie SimmonsSiri
- Cyrus Grace DunhamNadine
- Rachel HoweCandice
- Merritt WeverFrankie
- Amy SeimetzAshlynn
- Alex KarpovskyJed
- Jemima KirkeCharlotte
- Garland HunterNoelle
- Isen RitchieJacob
Recommendations
- 91
Christian Science Monitor
Lena Dunham, the writer-director-star of the microbudget Tiny Furniture, has a distinctive comedic take on the world – a kind of haggard spiritedness. - 88
Chicago Tribune
The movie is full, assured and extremely wry. - 75
Washington Post
A funny, affecting movie about growing up in the shadow of a formidable mom. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It's hard enough for a director to work with actors, but if you're working with your own family in your own house and depicting passive aggression, selfishness and discontent and you produce a film this good, you can direct just about anybody in just about anything. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
What Dunham lacks in polish, she makes up for in her ability to observe her generation, with the hardest truths coming at her own expense. - 70
Los Angeles Times
What the film does well is capture the confusion of the identity abyss of twentysomethings of a certain social class. - 63
Boston Globe
Dunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result. - 63
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In skewering the neuroses of New York bohemians, Durham has left us too little to care about.
