TMDb Rating
6.2/10
12 verified votes
Monster in a Box (1992)
Comedy
87 min
"He Survived Swimming to Cambodia. Now the Adventure Continues."
Plot Summary
Monologuist Spalding Gray talks about the great difficulties he experienced while attempting to write his first novel, a nearly 2,000-page autobiographical tome concerning the death of his mother. Among his many asides, Gray discusses his problems in dealing with the Hollywood film industry, recounts the trips he took around the world in order to avoid dealing with his writer's block and describes his ambivalence about acting as stage manager for a Broadway production of "Our Town."
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ComedyNick BroomfieldSpalding Gray1992
Director
Nick Broomfield
Top Cast
Spalding Gray
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