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Escanaba in Da Moonlight

Jeff Daniels (Actor, Director, Writer), Harve Presnell (Actor) Rated:
PG-13
Format: DVD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,966 ratings
IMDb6.3/10.0
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Genre Comedy
Format Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color
Contributor Jeff Daniels, Wayne David Parker, Alex Mulvaney, Randall Godwin, Kimberly Guerrero, Guy Sanville, Harve Presnell, Phillip Powers, Sandra Birch, Joey Albright, James Porterfield, Lucas Daniels See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 31 minutes
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A family in the Upper Peninsula, Michigan has a storied tradition of deer hunting. Everyone in the family has bagged their fair share of bucks except Rueben Soady who is on the verge of becoming the black of the Soady family. However, this year is going to be different. The Soady men have retreated to their cabin deep in the woods and things start changing, some for the better, others for the worse.

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"It's like Christmas with guns," is how one happy member of the Soady family describes the opening day of hunting season. Rueben Soady (Jeff Daniels) is on the verge of becoming the oldest member of the entire line of Soady men to have never shot a buck. To change his luck, Rueben tries to convince his father and brother to change some of the time-honored rituals of their annual hunting pilgrimage, but this seems to set off a series of uncanny incidents involving UFOs, cards, backwoods whiskey, flatulence, and possession by native spirits. Escanaba in da Moonlight is a comic homage to hunting in upstate Michigan, written and directed by star Daniels. It's not for everyone--vegetarians, among others, will find its blithe celebration of deer hunting repugnant--but venison eaters may find Escanaba's offbeat Midwest humor entertaining. --Bret Fetzer

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 7615
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Jeff Daniels
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, NTSC, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 31 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ October 15, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright, Wayne David Parker, Randall Godwin
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Monarch Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00006HAX7
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Guy Sanville, Jeff Daniels
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,966 ratings

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TK
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for an Michigander
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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If you don't know about this movie, you're not from Michigan. If you do, you know it's the best Michigan film out there. Some might even say it's the only one.
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SBC78132
5.0 out of 5 stars It is sophomoric, crude, jumps all over the place, and has enough heart for FIVE well earned stars!
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020
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Escanaba in da Moonlight is inane in places, crass in others, relies on sometimes crude humor, has disconnected story lines and still manages to deliver an amazingly awesome movie. I may be a bit biased as a born Yooper who spent significant time in Escanaba growing up, but that may drive home what really counts in Escanaba! No matter how insane the antics of the movie we find out that family, perseverance, and in their own way honor count most. Rueben has a brother, father, and wife who all support and encourage him despite previous failures. They are will to sacrifice some of their own comfort, success, and even pride to support Rueben in finding his own path to success. And in the end that support handed down through generations leads to the inevitable outcome of success. And that is a theme that one need not be a Yooper to appreciate or understand. So despite one to many fart jokes and some oddball deviations into UFOs, strange versions of spirituality, and some inside jokes that familiarity with UP culture helps to understand, this is becomes by the time the final credits roll by an amazing movie. Ultimately we have a middle aged man on his own path of self discovery who in the end finds himself and realizes that what really counts he had all along. Albert, Remnar, and Wolf Moon Dance are all there in support and enjoy Rueben's triumphs. So this qualifies as mostly good clean fun with a refreshing moral for those who stick with it to the end and thus earns five stars. The two different versions of our internal humanity displayed between crass humor and honorable behavior in the end works so give it a chance if you have not seen this one before.
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Lee D
5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected delight
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
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I hadn't heard of this film until I watched a short documentary piece on YouTube about Escanaba MI. It's currently the middle of summer and I wasn't planning to watch a 22 year old movie about opening day of deer season in MI, but I like Jeff Daniels and it was too hot to do anything outside so I thought I'd give it a chance. It was goofy, crazy, crass, sentimental--had a little bit of everything. I even got a little teary eyed towards the end. As long as you're not expecting a cinematic masterpiece you're sure to enjoy this fun little movie.
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Kathleen Hansen
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
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I personally didn’t watch this until it was a tradition before hunting.
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Casper_Knightshade
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and Merriment, but almost perfect....
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2003
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....is what I would describe Escanaba in Da Moonlight. Being that I am only a few hundred miles or so from the 'Fudgesucker' borderline that is the Mackinaw Bridge and a hunter myself, I can relate to some of the mischief and mayhem exhibited in this Jeff Daniels play-turned-movie. Now when I say some, don't take it either way of it's not true or it is true, but as a sign that the movie was, indeed, adapted from a play and it shows itself too much as that towards the end. However, don't let that deter you from witnessing some funny stuff that's so out there you wonder why we hunters make animal lovers a bit nervous.
Jeff Daniels, a native Michigander, did well in bringing to life and in detail elements needed to make it authentic; sometimes too much so to the point of unreal. Much of what happens in the Deer Camp, the central scene that lasts throughout much of the movie, is like any cabin in the woods, only needing a car battery to keep the power up. To top it off they even had a Two-Holer outhouse; two toliets! Any hunter will tell you that's essentially in group hunts.
I found the history that is relayed in the story about the successful kills and the humorous circumstances behind them to give added depth and sometimes emotion. Yes, it's true: sometimes a man in the Upper is defined by his Big Buck. The part about the U.F.O.'s is hillarious but gets old fast, and towards the end you do feel as if you sat through a play and not a movie, which sometimes plays drag too long. There's some moments in the end, which I won't reveal, that will leave you down a bit, perhaps too down when the end is finally reached.
Again, though, I did find this movie very funny and warm even if it isn't entirely accurate. Let's just say Jeff Daniels got it 80 percent right; high enough to draw the hunters out of the woods to go buy a DVD and enjoy the movie.
As for the DVD itself: not much to it, but that's the DVD's selling point: the movie, not the extras or lack thereof. I think some movie studios are too insecure about the movies they make and pack it with stuff; rightfully so. This hasn't got flash, but it does have substance.
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Amy Rogala
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious! Perfect Michigander Movie!
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2023
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This is funny if you’re from Michigan, funnier if you’re a Yooper, and funniest watched with a group of people!
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Melody M.
5.0 out of 5 stars So funny you wont stop laughing!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2019
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I cannot believe this movie!! In NH we also have deer hunting and take it very seriously. It was as if these people were spying on us and then wrote the movie! It was spot on and was able to make fun of hunters in a way that wasn't offensive at all. The blond guy who saw aliens was a carbon copy of my ex without the nasty mean honoryness factor added in. Completely crazy and out of touch with reality and looked like him too! And UFOs? Yup, we have those here in NH believe it or not. I think that 28 pointer his great grandfather claimed to have caught was a very small moose and he was too drunk to know the difference!! LMAO! This movie was beyond funny. We didn't stop laughing for anything. It is completely low budget and obviously low budget but what one can accomplish on a low budget is amazing to say the least! I'm still laughing a day later as I think back to this movie! Well done!! Here is to catching the big one!!
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Jessica
5.0 out of 5 stars Great classic
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023
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Got this for a birthday present for my sons dad he loved it we watch it every year.
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Cat Lover
5.0 out of 5 stars Escanaba
Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2013
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This is a classic,. Not sure where I first heard about it but I love it. My grownup kids like it too and rave about it to their friends saying you just have to watch this movie. It's great.
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Kimberlee
5.0 out of 5 stars Da Buckless Yooper
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2005
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This movie will make sense to anyone from Michigan. The story is about a man from Michigan's Upper Peninsula who's gone his entire life having never bagged a buck (shot a deer), which has branded him a total loser in the eyes of his community. Deer season rolls around and he sets out with his father, brother, and a family friend to the family's hunting shack in the woods to make another attempt to bag a buck. In all of its folklorish, superstitious glory, the hunters experience a series of bizarre events. I found this movie to be hilarious, although I'll admit that if you don't understand the importance of deer season in Michigan, it might not make as much sense.
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Carmel Landers
5.0 out of 5 stars Great film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2014
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Very funny storyline. I suspect I missed a lot of the in jokes as plot related to a specific area of the U.S.A but still enjoyable.
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Cathy Woodward
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2016
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Hubbys favorite movie
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Margo I.
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2016
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Sucks
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