the audience applauded

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's interesting how different people can look at the same thing and come away with such diverse reactions. I decided to watch this based on the many positive comments I had read. Unfortunately I cannot pitch my tent in that camp, since this movie never engaged me.John Turturro plays Al Fountain, an uptight electrical engineer who is away from home and in charge of a construction crew somewhere in the southeast US. When Al catches his crew having some fun fifteen minutes before knocking off for the day, he instructs them to get back to work. The sight of Tutturro in a hard hat being taken seriously by a bunch of burly construction workers should have alerted me that this movie was going to be part fantasy, and that turned out to be the case. The first part of the movie is spent in showing us what a nerd Al is. A closet full of neatly hung white shirts and dark pants, nightly calls home at precisely 9:00 PM, an inability to get along with ordinary people, stilted phone conversations with his wife and son, and so forth. Obviously Al needs to be shown how to loosen up a bit and appreciate the wondrous variety of experience, and sure enough Al meets just the right person to introduce him to more abundant living, The Kid. The Kid (Sam Rockwell), in buckskins, is a rifle-toting young lad wearing a coonskin hat who deals in selling such items as plastic deer and garden gnomes. Through a sequence of unlikely events Al winds up staying at The Kid's house--a facing wall opening onto an open-air courtyard that is lighted like it is decorated for a large Christmas party. The Kid frequently comments that he is off the grid, so how he powered his lights and television puzzled me. There are elements of pure fantasy, such as Al's seeing things in reverse like water being poured into a glass or a kid riding a bicycle. Why these irrelevant scenes were in there escaped me. In the director's commentary he remarks that these scenes were filmed by running the sequences backward. Who would have imagined that? I realize that questioning the believability of anything here is not to accept what I perceive is meant to be quirky whimsy. But I could not accept the absurdities presented.And what are the rewards of living a more carefree life? Such things as shooting out expensive window glass, jumping into lakes naked, cheating on your wife, shooting holes in tubs of paint, getting beat up while others stand around watching helplessly, eating crushed Oreo cookies and milk for breakfast, and so forth. Is an argument being made here for the value of being a nerd, and staying a nerd?

This is a simply superb movie, made with great craftsmanship, that repays repeated viewings. Al Fountain (John Turturro) a disciplined, dedicated man is approaching a mid life crisis when, through a twist of fate, he meets wild and free spirited Kid (Sam Rockwell) and begins a journey of self discovery. Spending several days together with the unconventional Kid, Al will finally discover and experience all the feelings and emotions he had denied himself. Turturro and Rockwell are absolute perfection in their respective roles and a complete joy to watch. The cinematography is superb and the music score fabulous yet never overpowering. The great accomplishment of this film is that it captures something elusive about being human, something intangible, just like the 'moonlight' in the box given to Al by the Kid on their parting.

This movie was by far the worst movie ('indie masterpiece' or otherwise) I've ever seen.Turturro - For Christ's sake, man! You were "da Jesus", you were Disco Bean! For crying out loud, what possibly motivated you to even give this script a second glance? It obviously wasn't the money.This film went nowhere and it went nowhere and it went nowhere and it went nowhere and it went nowhere and it went nowhere. Some more. By the end, I was seriously looking for Alan Smithee's name in the credits.I see Sam Rockwell's career really took off after this little number and poor Catherine Keener wasn't famous yet so she took what parts she could, I guess.Not quirky. Not cute. Not a humble slice of Americana, not a modern fable about a man getting through a mid-life crisis.CERTAINLY not a comedy. Unless perhaps unintentionally.Am I not getting the joke? Are all of these glowing comments just a clever ploy to get people to waste 112 minutes of their life by watching this movie continually bomb until the credits roll? If so, please - let me in on it. I swear to god I'll laugh in spite of myself. I promise.Life got you down? Feel like you're going nowhere? Then hey, check out Box of Moon Light. I swear by the end you'll want to kill yourself.

One of my favourite Films of all time. Top notch performances all round especially turturro and Sam rockwell.Sad,funny,inspiring and always entertaining this is a film that stays in your mind forever and one to watch over and over again.The Cinematography is sublime, while the screenplay is spot on.For Film fans who like their films with a great story .Not for the blockbuster merchants.In short : A Classic.Do yourself a favour and rent this movie out.Tom dicillio at his best.