Fans will recognize Dermot Mulroney, left, from Living In Oblivion, an earlier film by director Tom DiCillo. Early on in his drive, Al finds Kid with his broken-down car by the side of the road.
Kid lives in a trailer with no walls.
He trades in stolen lawn gnomes but otherwise has no source of income, no credit cards, no social security number. With Kid, Al goes skinny dipping, has a tomato fight, dances with the local girls. DiCillo has said he sees Box Of Moonlight as an existential action film. While the movie doesn't lack DiCillo's desirably off-centre view of the world, it does lack the bizarre humor that usually goes with.