MONSTER IN A BOX

DISCOVERY:
I saw Monster in a Box based upon the strength of Swimming to Cambodia.

OPENING SCENE: 
A man seated at a desk, upon which a mysterious corrugated cardboard box rests.

PLOT:
This is the 14th in a series of autobiographies by actor, writer and director Spalding Gray. Gray opens up by revealing how, as a young man, he tries to take his first vacation from his birthplace in Rhode Island. But his mother is suicidal, and he is afraid to leave.

  This is a writer's story, but not exclusively for writers.

You don't have to see Swimming to Cambodia to appreciate Monster. Gray proves that the art of the storyteller is not yet dead.

 FINALE:
We learn what the monster is.
     

Spalding with the Monster

Country:  USA
Language: English
credits:
  88:00 1992

Directed by: Nick Broomfield 
Written by: Spalding Gray

CAST:

SOUND:
Laurie Anderson's score accentuates this script admirably. She produced the soundtrack to Swimming to Cambodia. Her own musical movie is Home of the Brave (1986) 85:00 minutes.

PERIOD/LOCATION:
Set in near present—early 1990's. Gray takes us on a world tour de force verbally, yet he never leaves the studio location from which he is seated for the monologue.

CINEMATIC SIMILARITIES:
My Dinner With Andre
Swimming to Cambodia  
Gray's Anatomy

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