Monster in a Box
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93% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Comedy, Drama Running time 1h 29m Country United States | 7.4/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1992 Initial release May 15, 1992 (Los Angeles) Film series Swimming to Cambodia Film Series Similar movies Jupiter Ascending , Frozen , Pitch Perfect 2 , The Wolf of Wall Street , Fifty Shades of Grey , The Intern Tagline He Survived Swimming to Cambodia. Now the Adventure Continues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monster in a box
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.
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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.
An extended version of the monologue was published in book form prior to the release of the film.
Parody
This monologue — or at least its title — was parodied on Sesame Street in an installment of "Monsterpiece Theater." The main actor (and writer) for the parody was a monster aptly called Spalding Monster in homage to Gray.
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