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Director
  
Jeff Daniels

Initial DVD release
  
October 15, 2002

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Fantasy

Screenplay
  
Jeff Daniels

Language
  
English

Escanaba in da Moonlight movie poster

Writer
  
Jeff Daniels
,
Guy Sanville

Release date
  
January 26, 2001

Cast
  
Jeff Daniels
(Reuben Soady),
Harve Presnell
(Albert Soady),
Wayne David Parker
(Jimmer Negamanee),
Kimberly Norris-Guerrero
(Wolf Moon Dance Soady),
Joey Albright
(Remnar Soady)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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Escanaba in da Moonlight is a 2001 movie starring Jeff Daniels. It is a comedy about hunting and hunting traditions and is set (and filmed) in the Escanaba, Michigan area. The movie is the film adaptation of the play of the same name, which premiered at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan.

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Plot

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Reuben Soady (Daniels) goes to the hunting camp cottage, otherwise known as deer camp, with his father Albert (played by Harve Presnell), brother Remnar (Joey Albright) and Jimmy "the Jimmer" Negamanee from Menominee (Wayne David Parker). If Reuben, now 43, doesn't manage to shoot a buck by the end of the season, he will become the oldest Soady in recorded history not to have achieved this task, a taboo that leads people in the community to believe he is jinxed.

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Reuben breaks with tradition, taking advice from his Native American wife Wolf Moon Dance (Kimberly Norris), who offers him spiritual remedies involving a drink made with moose testicles and scenting himself with porcupine urine to protect him from evil spirits and attract his prey to him. After various unexplainable phenomena, they meet a DNR officer, Tom T. Treado (Randall Godwin), who claims to have literally seen God on the ridge.

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At various times, Reuben, Jimmer, and ranger Tom all get possessed by spirits. Eventually, Reuben runs out into the cold wearing only his long underwear and a hat, and finds himself face-to-face with his dead great-grandfather Alphonse, who guides him to shooting a buck sent for him by the spirits. Reuben returns triumphantly.

Cast


  • Jeff Daniels as Reuben Soady
  • Harve Presnell as Albert Soady
  • Joey Albright as Remnar Soady / Porcelain Bus Dancer
  • Wayne David Parker as Jimmer Negamanee
  • Randall Godwin as Ranger Tom T. Treado
  • Kimberly Norris Guerrero as Wolf Moon Dance Soady
  • James Porterfield as Alphonse Soady
  • Guy Sanville as Alvin Soady

    • Yooper/Michigan Culture

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    A significant portion of the movie involves references to elements of "Yooper" (slang reference to residents of the U.P. or Upper Peninsula of Michigan) and broader Michigan culture. Some references are obscure to viewers unfamiliar with this culture and might be considered in-jokes.

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    Some examples include:

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  • Pasties—the traditional foodstuff at the Soady deer camp, and food commonly associated with Yooper culture
  • Leinenkugel's Beer—Remnar brings a case to deer camp, a reminder of Escanaba's proximity to Wisconsin, where Leinenkugel's is produced
  • Mackinac Bridge—simply referred to as "the Bridge" throughout the film, the bridge that connects Michigan's peninsulas
  • Mackinac Island Fudge—Albert refers to tourists from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan as "those fudgesuckers," a reference to the fudge made on Mackinac Island, a considerable draw for tourism from within the state
  • The Superior State—used a few times to refer to the film's location; although a nickname for the state of Michigan as a whole, Superior is also the name of a once-proposed 51st state formed from the Upper Peninsula and, in some iterations, parts of Wisconsin
  • US Highway 41—an old shield for this highway hangs on the wall in the Soady cabin; an important north-south highway in the western to central U.P.
  • Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore—natural formation along lake shore mentioned briefly
  • Euchre—a card game popular in the Midwest, possibly introduced to the United States by the early German settlers of Michigan
  • M-35—a state highway starting at Menominee in the south, passing through Escanaba, and ending at US 41/M-28 between Marquette and Negaunee in the north

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    References

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