Escanaba in da Moonlight


Escanaba in da Moonlight da is Yooper for the is a 2001 movie starring Jeff Daniels. It is a comedy about hunting and hunting traditions and is set and filmed in the Escanaba, Michigan area. The movie is the film adaptation of the play of the same name, which premiered at Jeff Daniels Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan.

Reuben breaks with tradition, taking advice from his Native American wife Wolf Moon Dance Kimberly Norris, who offers him spiritual remedies involving a drink made with moose testicles and scenting himself with porcupine urine to protect him from evil spirits and attract his prey to him. After various unexplainable phenomena, they meet a DNR officer, Tom T. Treado Randall Godwin, who claims to have literally seen God on the ridge.At various times, Reuben, Jimmer, and ranger Tom all get possessed by spirits. Eventually, Reuben runs out into the cold wearing only his long underwear and a hat, and finds himself facetoface with his dead greatgrandfather Alphonse, who guides him to shooting a buck sent for him by the spirits. Reuben returns triumphantly. ........

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