"DANNY DECKCHAIR" is a delightful, well-acted illustration of an unhappy person's breakout from his mundane existence. To say the Australian film -- about a daydreamer's desire to dramatically ...

In Danny Deckchair the accents are Australian, but the misty evocation of underachieving charm and quaintly subversive humor is both overfamiliar and reassuring.

It's a wallow in old-time sentimentality: a shuffle off to Piffleville. Danny Deckchair (90 minutes, at Landmark E Street Cinema and Cinema Arts Theatre) is rated PG-13 for sexual suggestiveness.

Danny Deckchair gets about halfway to that paradigm shift. An Aussie comedy with a mile-wide agreeable streak, the film appears to pride itself on its low-impact, high-hugs approach to blue-collar ...