Released 1992
Stars Spalding Gray
Directed by Nick Broomfield

The second film adaptation of a Spalding Gray monologue, this one chronicling various adventures from L.A. to the Soviet Union which interrupt Gray's efforts to write a huge autobiographical novel (the monster of the title). The direction and the music are more obtrusive than in the previous SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA, but Gray's stories and observations are still funny, profound, and extremely compelling. Our favorite anecdote: Gray's semi-disastrous stint as the Stage Manager in a N.Y. revival of Our Town.

Summary by Leonard Maltin