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* ClocksOfControl: Al shoots the big clock on the construction side which symbolizes his CharacterDevelopment away from being a ClockKing.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Kid plays the buddy-movie equivalent. He wears a Davy Crockett costume and teaches Al to love life.
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* TitleDrop: Kid drops the title.

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* TitleDrop: Kid drops the title.TrivialTitle.
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* FiveFiveFive: The phone sex hotline is 555-[[Phoneword 4Sex]].

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''Box of Moonlight'' (or ''Box of Moon Light'') is a 1996 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom [=DiCillo=], starring Creator/JohnTurturro, Creator/SamRockwell and Creator/CatherineKeener.

Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.

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* FiveFiveFive: The phone sex hotline is 555-4Sex.
* AbandonedWarehouse: All and Kid have a fun shooting practice at the abandoned construction site.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Kid repeatedly calls Floatie as Flighty and Al a nuclear instead of an electrical engineer.
* AlmostKiss: Between Al and Floatie.
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Al overhears his workers bad mouthing him at the hotel.
* CampfireCharacterExploration: Al and Kid have their first more serious talk at night by a fire site. That's also when the Kid catches the moonlight in a box.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Al doesn't get the waitress' advances and thinks she really wanted to know if they got hot showers at the motel.
* CryIntoChest: Kid cries into Al's chest after being beaten badly by the bullies.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The rental car company is called "Circle" which foreshadows Al GoingInCircles.
* GoingInCircles: Al realizes that his trip was actually a round trip when he finds himself back at the construction site of the windshield wiper factory.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Al and Kid form this kind of close relationship if only for a couple of days.
* MaleFrontalNudity: We see Creator/SamRockwell's character naked once or twice.
* PervertedSniffing: When Kid and Al sniff Purlene's panties, the former correctly deducts her to be a redhead.
* RedAndWhiteComedyPoster: The movie poster is designed as such though the movie itself doesn't really fall into the genre.
* TitleDrop: Kid drops the title.
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