Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I decided to write a review of this film while watching it, just to make sure the boring 112 minutes it takes to get through it are not a complete waste of time. This is sophomoric male fantasy, embarrassing in its stupidity. "Jesus Christ kid, that's an $1800 window," says Al as his new-found friend takes him on a shooting rampage. The entire film is one absurd and phony protestation after another from Al, followed by his gleeful compliance with every idiotic stunt of theft or vandalism the fool in the woods dreams up. Mid-life crisis? Mental breakdown? I don't know and the movie never prompts me to care. At this point in the film, people are seeing Jesus in a hamburger placard. Amusing? Now the two fools are getting beat up. I give up.

I avoided this movie at the time because it featured John Turturro. Boy was I wrong. This movie is a fine well-crafted story about-well nothing much. Just saving a man's life from utter meaningless. John Turturro plays an annoying executive who decides to lie to his wife-take a road trip-and perhaps find the meaning of life amongst a bunch of-well, "white trash". You could call it a Hero's Journey if you'all like. As soon as The Kid(Sam Rockwell) shows up, in his grimy buckskin outfit- this movie takes off. Screenwriters have a name for this: the inciting incident-whatever. Asking Sam Rockwell to play a hippie-backwoods kid with little future is like asking pigs to search for acorns. It just works. The writing and acting are just so relaxed and yet vital. This movie breathes. It flows. It floats-like Floatie Dupre(Catherine Keener) gently downstream-in the river of life.It is lazy. It just makes you grin. Ultimately, this is the story of one man, The Kid, reaching out to another man, Al Fountain(Turturro), in the confusing world we inhabit. This is a light movie-or rather a movie filled with light. This is one of Turturro's, and Rockwell's finest movies. Catherine Keener glows as a somewhat-dejected faerie-queen. This is a Hero's Journey, into the heart of not Southern darkness, but Southern kindness and Southern joy.A classic film-If you ask me.

There were, indeed, some cute moments, and the acting was just fine. The script, however, presented us with people that were simply unbelievable - they just didn't act or react as any actual people would. A touch of the fantastic can be delightful - but the mother who affirms that her kid is studying (to his father) while he plays video games just doesn't exist. The husband/wife relationship was ... vaguely polite. The boss/work crew relationship could only be imagined by someone who has never actually had a job - certainly none that they did well.One wonders where the writer/director lives - this movie gives the firm impression that they've never actually seen any people who weren't on a television screen.That's a couple of hours I'll never get back.

Director Tom DiCillo has all the attributes required for a top indie film maker. He displays a sharp humorous edge coupled with an all round smartness. But his advantage over his peers is that his works are permeated with a genuine and very winning romanticism (realized best in "Real Blonde").The premise of "Box of Moonlight" is indeed a romantic one. Two complete opposites who by all accounts would steer clear of each other are instinctively drawn together when destiny wills a chance encounter. They will learn important life lessons from each other and part the richer. It is in effect a delightful spin on the buddy movie.John Turturro and Sam Rockwell are the least likely buddies one could imagine. Turturro plays the rigid, time obsessive and orderly engineer against Rockwell's wild, irresponsible back to nature outcast. Turturro's Al Fountain senses much is not well in his life and subconsciously perceives that Rockwell's "The Kid" might just be what he is so much in need of; someone to release those parts of his personality which adulthood and its encumbering responsibilities has suffocated. "The Kid" indeed accomplishes this in a variety of ways including coaxing Al to reach his inner child in the wonderful tomato throwing scene and luring him into an touching adolescent one night stand with Floatie played beautifully by Catherine Keener, a DiCillo favorite. By the end of the movie Al will return home a far better husband and father.Just how Rockwell's "The Kid" will be effected is less clear. He is clearly a severely deluded character functioning more as a symbol rather than a credible person. In lesser hands it could have come off ludicrous, but Rockwell nails it perfectly in what would be his break through role. There's a palpable chemistry between the buddies which is so vital for making this story work."Box of Moonlight" is a modern day fable, a cautionary tale reminding us not to allow adulthood smother us. It's a tale told with tremendous charm and a movie to be cherished.