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Escanaba in Da Moonlight by Jeff Daniels
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Harve Presnell, Jeff Daniels, Joey Albright, Randall Godwin, Wayne David Parker Director: Jeff Daniels Brand: Monarch Writer: Jeff Daniels Writer: Guy Sanville Cinematographer: Richard Brauer Editor: Robert L. Tomlinson Producer: Bob Brown Producer: Tom Spiroff DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 91 minutes DVD Release Date: 2002-10-15 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Monarch Video
Movie Reviews of Escanaba in Da MoonlightMovie Review: Surreal... Summary: 5 Stars
If you plan to see only one comedy this year, you've found your match! The humor is: slapstick, ironic, cultural, musical, and visual in nature. I usually enjoy British comedy, but Jeff Daniels wrote a real gem, here. The characters are coarse and ignorant, but loveable. The actors were cast perfectly--their body types, voices, and mannerisms perfect for their roles. The entire story takes place in a backwoods cabin, in Northern Michigan, where an unlucky man (accompanied by his firm father, crude brother, and an eccentric and unintelligable friend)has retreated, trying to break his bad luck, by hunting down a deer, and bringing it home to his Chippewa wife. The events in that little wood lodge take on supernatural proportions, when a Chevy catches on fire, and tries to run down a man who believes he was once visited by aliens, when the four of them drink sacred Native American potions for health that include such ingredients as baked worms, and when a mysterious creature is believed to be after them all, and must be warded off with... well, you have to see it. I especially like the scene in which the skinny sherrif has been stripped down to his underwear, and is tied to a chair, singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," while being splashed with pungent liquid. Ghosts, visions, homemade moonshine, strange lights, unusual cuisine, unique characters, bizarre humor, delightful local slang, and excellent timing abound in this movie. Its a family movie, for the theatre-lover and the basic middle American alike. 5 stars! (Note, I am a vegetarian who is, shall we say, anti-hunting, but that did not impact my enjoyment of the film. The plot takes far too many twists and turns for hunting to be the true heart of the story. The characters and their bizarre interactions are the real "meat" of this film...tee-hee.)
Summary of Escanaba in Da MoonlightIts the day before the 1989 hunting season opens. For generations the men of the soady family have trekked to the same ramshackle deer camp north of escanaba in michigans upper peninsula to drink cause a little bit of trouble and bag bucks. Studio: Monarch Video Assoc. Release Date: 08/30/2005 Starring: Jeff Daniels Kimberly Norris Guerrero Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jeff Daniels
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