What is Living in Oblivion / Box of Moonlight about?

Name: Living in Oblivion / Box of Moonlight
Genre: Comedy,Drama

LIVING IN OBLIVION, 1994, Sony Pictures Classics, 90 min. Director Tom DiCillo expertly captures the fiascos that define any independent filmmaking experience with this brilliant low-budget variation on Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT. Steve Buscemi is perfect as DiCillo’s onscreen alter ego, a director traumatized by malfunctioning special effects, self-absorbed actors, and overall incompetence on the set of his new film. BOX OF MOONLIGHT, 1996, Lionsgate Films, 112 min. Tom DiCillo is at his most fanciful in this charming and intensely moving modern day fairy tale. John Turturro plays Al Fountain, a depressed engineering foreman who hits the road in search of an idyllic locale that brought him his fondest childhood memories. What he finds there does little to improve his mood, but on the way home he picks up a young man with car trouble (Sam Rockwell) who helps him discover that there’s more to life than the boredom to which he has become accustomed.

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What is Living in Oblivion / Box of Moonlight about?: LIVING IN OBLIVION, 1994, Sony Pictures Classics, 90 min. Director Tom DiCillo expertly captures the fiascos that define any independent filmmaking experience with this brilliant low-budget variation on Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT. Steve Buscemi is perfect as DiCillo’s onscreen alter ego, a director traumatized by malfunctioning special effects, self-absorbed actors, and overall incompetence on the set of his new film.

BOX OF MOONLIGHT, 1996, Lionsgate Films, 112 min. Tom DiCillo is at his most fanciful in this charming and intensely moving modern day fairy tale. John Turturro plays Al Fountain, a depressed engineering foreman who hits the road in search of an idyllic locale that brought him his fondest childhood memories. What he finds there does little to improve his mood, but on the way home he picks up a young man with car trouble (Sam Rockwell) who helps him discover that there’s more to life than the boredom to which he has become accustomed.