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Box of moonlight

"This spiritual road movie centers on the life-changing encounter between uptight electrical engineer Al Fountain and an eccentric known as Kid who has chosen to live 'off the grid.' Away from home supervising construction of a windshield wiper manufacturing plant in remote Drip Rock, Al's nightly 9 p.m. call to his wife and son in Chicago is so punctual she refers to him as Mr. Clockwork. His crew keeps a distance, seeing him as a joyless robot and excluding him from their socializing. Perhaps triggered by having overheard the crew's pitying dismissal of his regimented life, or perhaps by the discovery of his first gray hair, Al has visions of things moving in reverse: water draining from a glass as it's being filled, a child riding backward on a bicycle. When the job is canceled, Al, in his disturbed state of mind, conceals the fact from his wife and stays on. He meets the patently peculiar Kid on the road with a dead engine and tows him back to his bizarre home in the woods, the facade of a trailer stuffed with colorful objects. The film shifts into a looser mode as, through a series of ruses pulled by Kid, Al is forced to stick around and experience an unconstricted, almost enchanted existence. Initially disapproving of such undisciplined company, Al gradually relaxes and learns to go where the day takes him, eventually returning to Chicago a changed man"--Variety review by David Rooney, September 9, 1996.

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