Monster in a Box

{{Short description|1992 monologue film by Nick Broomfield}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Monster in a Box

| image = Monster in a Box.jpg

| caption =

| director = Nick Broomfield

| producer = Jon Blair
Norman I. Cohen
Renée Shafransky

| writer = Spalding Gray

| starring = Spalding Gray

| music = Laurie Anderson

| cinematography = Michael Coulter

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1992}}

| runtime = 87 min

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross = $311,245

}}

Monster in a Box is a monologue originally performed live on stage by the writer Spalding Gray then subsequently made into a 1992 film starring Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield.{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE0DD143CF936A35755C0A964958260|title=A 'Monster' Dense With Meaning|author=Canby, Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby|

newspaper=The New York Times|date=5 June 1992|archivedate=May 26, 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526052613/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/movies/review-film-a-monster-dense-with-meaning.html}}

A follow-up to Gray's earlier work, Swimming to Cambodia,{{cite book|authorlink=Leonard Maltin|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sfw2AgAAQBAJ&dq=monster+in+a+box+spalding+gray&pg=RA4-PT1347|title=Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide|date=2013-09-03|publisher=Penguin Group|isbn=978-1-101-60955-2|language=en}} the work consists of a long-form monologue by Gray detailing the trials and tribulations he encountered while writing his first novel, Impossible Vacation.

The soundtrack for the film was composed by Laurie Anderson.

A book version of the monologue was published in 1992.{{cite web|title=Monster in a Box|publisher=Penguin Random House|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/70931/monster-in-a-box-by-spalding-gray/|date=February 25, 1992|isbn=9780679737391}}