Box of Moonlight (1997)

In this quirky fable, the unexpected onset of a middle-age crisis leads a rigidly punctual electrical engineer to a timeless place where he learns that there is indeed life without deadlines. Al Fountain's (John Turturro) epiphany comes while he is overseeing the construction of a windshield-wiper plant in Drip Rock, Tennessee. Rigid, hyper-punctual (his wife in New York could set her watch by the consistently precise timing of his nightly phone calls) and humorless, Al wins no friends among the crewmen. One day he overhears them feeling a little sorry for him for being such a stiff. Soon after, he finds a gray hair in his comb. Then, in his hotel room, he begins having frightening visions of the world moving in reverse. Still he conceals his inner turmoil until his job is abruptly cancelled. Without really knowing why, he decides to remain in Drip Rock for a while and so lets his wife believe that everything's okay. One day, he helps a stranded motorist named The Kid (Sam Rockwell). He asks Al to tow his car to his strange and colorful trailer in the woods where The Kid invites him to stay. The free-form, undisciplined Kid proves to be Al's opposite, but still the two forge a friendship that changes Al's life.