Here is the wonderful thing about this film: While avid Grateful Dead fans will obviously love Box of Rain, it's appeal comes in many forms outside of mere admiration for the Grateful Dead.
More so than being a film about a band, it's largely about how a band or style of music can create a certain dynamic when it weaves itself within one's life at a particular time. It's a film about freedom and self-discovery...inspiration and admiration. It's a film about LIFE.
Box of Rain manages something not easily accomplished in documentary film making- which is to meld all of the most interesting and desirable aspects of good story telling into a immensely enjoyable watch.