Monster in a Box (1992)
- Directed by
- Nick Broomfield
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Writer Spalding Gray tells stories about his struggles to write his first novel. He performs this monologue directly to the camera.
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What happens
Monster in a Box is a monologue originally performed live on stage by the writer Spalding Gray then subsequently made into a 1992 film starring Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield. A follow-up to Gray's earlier work, Swimming to Cambodia, the work consists of a long-form monologue by Gray detailing the trials and tribulations he encountered while writing his first novel, Impossible Vacation. The soundtrack for the film was composed by Laurie Anderson. A book version of the monologue was published in 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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