The third of acclaimed monologist Spalding Gray's performance works to be filmed (after SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA and "SPALDING GRAY: TERRORS OF PLEASURE," shown as an HBO comedy special), MONSTER IN A BOX shows Gray reaching a point of diminishing returns as an artist, though he's lost nothing
as an entertainer.
The monster of the title is a 1900-page manuscript of a novel by Gray that is two years overdue at the publisher. The monologue relates what happened during those two years and becomes a study in creative procrastination. Gray recounts how, after obtaining the book contract, he sequestered himself
at a writer's colony to get down to work, only to find himse...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
90 mins