An engineer finds his first gray hair, takes 6 days off from wife, son and work, rents a car and meets different people.An engineer finds his first gray hair, takes 6 days off from wife, son and work, rents a car and meets different people.An engineer finds his first gray hair, takes 6 days off from wife, son and work, rents a car and meets different people.
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- TriviaAppeared on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen in the Jul 16, 2012 issue.
- GoofsWhen watching wrestling and eating hot dogs with the Kid, Al's hot dog goes from half-eaten to him taking the first bite of it back to half-eaten depending on the camera angle.
- Quotes
The Kid: You used to be a cheerleader, didn't you?
Purlene Dupre: Yeah, in the fourth fuckin' grade.
The Kid: And your hair's not really blonde, is it?
Purlene Dupre: Yes, it is.
Floatie Dupre: No it's not, her hair's red, she's a redhead, she's got a bright red bush.
- Alternate versionsIn a cut scene right before reaching Bambi's Bar, Kid tells Al that he wanted to join the Air Force after high school because they wanted him to be a test pilot. Al then sees a man walking backwards across the street. He asks Kid what he sees, and Kid confirms it. Kid pulls alongside the man at a stop sign, and asks why he's walking backwards. The man replies because he feels like it. Kid then tells him that if he does it in front of his car, he'll run over him. Kid screeches away from the stop sign and almost hits the man.
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Very poetic
I suppose I have the right sex, the right age and the right background to absolutely love this movie. It is full of beautiful pictures, romantic and humorous scenes. The balance between dream and reality is aptly kept, the use of colour is deliberate and aesthetically sound (green and shades of blue predominate), the soundtrack is memorable and supports the pictures very well. Box of Moon Light has a pleasant slow pace, and all is well orchestrated into a good, coherent story and a single statement: You have to look for the poetic side of life wherever you are, in whatever situation you find yourself in.
All characters are three dimensional: John Turturro is simply brilliant (the quality of his performance here equals the one he gave in Quiz Show) as the conscientious, morally uptight middle class Mr. Everyman who is sent to a nowhere place in the rolling hills of Tennessee on a futile mission. Sam Rockwell is equally well cast in his role of a totally carefree present day Huckleberry Finn/Davy Crockett who rules supreme in his own little junk-kingdom. Catherine Keener was certainly never lovlier than here. She plays a shy girl from the backwoods and is surprisingly convincing in that role.
All characters are three dimensional: John Turturro is simply brilliant (the quality of his performance here equals the one he gave in Quiz Show) as the conscientious, morally uptight middle class Mr. Everyman who is sent to a nowhere place in the rolling hills of Tennessee on a futile mission. Sam Rockwell is equally well cast in his role of a totally carefree present day Huckleberry Finn/Davy Crockett who rules supreme in his own little junk-kingdom. Catherine Keener was certainly never lovlier than here. She plays a shy girl from the backwoods and is surprisingly convincing in that role.
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- Mar 20, 2003
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- Gross US & Canada
- $782,641
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