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

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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