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Escanaba In Da Moonlight

2002, Movie, PG-13, 92 mins

Escanaba In Da Moonlight: Review

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How did star-director-screenwriter Jeff Daniels ever raise financing for this purported comedy, a testosterone jubilee that first saw light as a play in 1996? Every year, the Soady family congregate at their Michigan cabin to drink beer, swap tall tales and shoot ten-point bucks. Although Papa Albert (Harve Presnell) and his son Remnar (Joey Albright) regularly bring home the venison, Albert's other son, Reuben (Jeff Daniels), is a disgrace to the Soady reputation. This time, however, Reuben's Native American wife, Wolf Moon Dancer (Kimberly Norris Guerrero), fortifies her man with kickapoo joy juice, foolproof "injun" chants and porcupine-urine cologne guaranteed to attract deer. Family friend Jimmer (Wayne David Parker), who claims to have been abducted by aliens, is also along for the ride. Though firm believers in UFOs, the Soadys are surprised by flashes of white light that strike the cabin and shake the ground like a series of earthquakes. The bright rays turn out to have nothing to do with aliens: They're a communication from the late pioneer/master sportsman Alphonse Soady (James Porterfield), who wants Reuben to know there's more to hunting than marksmanship. Can ghostly Alphonse help educate Reuben shake the shameful feelings of inadequacy that have dogged his existence since childhood? This misguided farce uses hunting as an obvious metaphor for manliness and locates the root of all emotional succor in the family unit. Viewers assaulted by the film's nonstop gas jokes and puerile speechifying may not feel so generous. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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