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Monster in a Box
It's no mystery why the movie recommendation sites recommended this movie to me. I enjoyed the two other Spaulding Gray monologue films, Swimming to Cambodia which came before it and Gray's Anatomy which came after it, both very much. The man's a great story teller. What else can you say about it? He's neurotic in a way that I find much more identifiable than say another famous neurotic Woody Allen. Maybe because it's because I'm more familiar with the WASP kind of communication style than the Jewish. The AIDS paranoia is a bit of a precursor to Gray's Anatomy, and unfounded anxiety surrounding health is something I certainly have dealt with. And after all the talk about that production of Our Town, I'm pretty interested in checking that out as well.
Rating: 9/10