Box of Moonlight

1996

Action / Comedy / Drama

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 6361 6.4K

midlife crisis engineer free spirit stranger

Plot summary

Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.

Director

Tom DiCillo Photo
Tom DiCillo

Top cast

Dermot Mulroney Photo
Dermot Mulroney as Wick
Sam Rockwell Photo
Sam Rockwell as The Kid
John Turturro Photo
John Turturro as Al Fountain
Catherine Keener Photo
Catherine Keener as Floatie Dupre
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1022.45 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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1.85 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by queitus 8 / 10

Subtle = Powerful

Everything in this film is about subtlety... I think that's why it has such a lasting effect.It's definitely one of those "mischievous" films... sort of an escape from reality that makes you wonder why you and others take themselves so seriously. It's something that will most likely linger with you for a while. This film made me re-evaluate the seriousness of my life. I think this is among the only films that actually has changed my life somewhat.
Reviewed by C Seay 7 / 10

Subtle but powerful

I'd heard plenty of people tell me that I needed to see "Box of Moonlight" because it was filmed in Knoxville, TN (my hometown) and that it featured several signs and personalities familiar to Knoxvillians (the newscasters Gene Patterson and Kristin Hoke, the hot pink "Bambi's" bar/strip club, etc.), so I watched the movie almost entirely trying to pick up these things. I found myself enjoying a very subtle, lighthearted film about a man (John Turturro) struggling with a mid-life crisis, and eventually liberating himself from the normal stiff, "clockwork" persona he had become. Sam Rockwell gives a great performance as "Kid", and Catherine Keener is wonderful as the "simple southern girl" (a 180 degree turn from her role in "Being John Malkovich"). Turturro is excellent as Al, and you can feel the emotions he is having during his transformation. Everyone should be able to relate to his disappointment when he returns to the fictional Splatchee Lake, only to see that it is no longer what he remembers. You begin to understand how much he needs someone like Kid to break him free from the life that he so obviously loathes, but not until the final scene do you understand how much Kid needed him to stick around and be his friend (maybe Kid wasn't as slow-witted as we were made to believe?). The writing and acting in this film are wonderful, and I wish more filmmakers would make movies like this. It was a refreshing story, and one that is worth seeing.
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