Box of moon light [videorecording] / Lakeshore Entertainment ; a Lemon Sky production ; produced by Marcus Viscidi, Thomas A. Bliss ; written & directed by Tom DiCillo.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: VM6838D | Trimark Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: [United States] : Trimark Home Video, c1997.Description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1573624055
- 9781573624053
- Title on container: Box of moonlight
- Music, Jim Farmer ; editor, Camilla Toniolo ; director of photography, Paul Ryan ; co-producers, Meredith Zamsky, Taylor MacCrae.
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY Box of m | Available | 33111008269777 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this whimsically absurd comedy, Al Fountain (John Turturro) is an rigidly self-controlled electrical engineer who has discovered his first gray hair and has begun seeing things (bicycles running backwards, coffee pouring from the cup into the pot). To Al's shock, he's fired without notice from his job and told to go home. Instead, he rents a car and heads out in search of Splatchee Lake, a vacation spot he remembers visiting as a child (and one of the few places where he ever felt truly content). Al discovers that the lake is too polluted to swim in, but he finds The Kid (Sam Rockwell), a genial eccentric who wears a coonskin cap and lives in the woods with a large collection of junk scavenged from trash heaps. The Kid encourages Al to be spontaneous and take some chances in his life; an opportunity to do so presents itself when Dupree sisters Floatie (Catherine Keener) and Purlene (Lisa Blount) appear, and love (or a reasonable facsimile) is in the air. Writer/director Tom DiCillo had originally intended this project to follow his debut feature, the hipster comedy Johnny Suede, but problems with financing and production delays led him to make the indie film satire Living in Oblivion first. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Container includes brief synopsis, credits, and chapter index.
Music, Jim Farmer ; editor, Camilla Toniolo ; director of photography, Paul Ryan ; co-producers, Meredith Zamsky, Taylor MacCrae.
John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, Annie Corley, Dermot Mulroney.
John Turturro plays an extremely uptight engineer whose entire life is punctual and routine to the point of absurdity. He finds himself struggling with the monotony of everyday life and the threat of middle age. Then a routine business trip turns into a life-altering experience when he meets some bizarre but sincere strangers: a free spirit played by Sam Rockwell, a phone sex operator (Catherine Keener), and a paranoid mechanic (Dermot Mulroney). By the director of Living in oblivion and The real blonde, this is a very gutsy relationship film played platonically between two men.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD; widescreen; 2.0 Dolby surround; digitally mastered.
In English with optional Spanish and French subtitles. Closed-captioned.