Stoned, Freeburg hallucinated hat he saw a fat reddish and green caterpillar with a semi-human face crawl into the room, smoke from a hookah, and then blow smoke in his face.Smith: I want to apologize for some of the people in town.Macreedy: They act like they""re sittin"" on a keg.Smith: A keg...? Of what?Macreedy: I don""t know.Diamonds? Gunpowder?Smith: (disarmingly) Oh, it""s nothing like that.We""re suspicious of strangers is all.Hangover from the old days.The Old West.Macreedy: I thought the tradition of the Old West was hospitality.Smith: (sincerely) I""m trying to be hospitable, Mr.Macreedy.You going to be around long?Macreedy: Could be.As they walk to the front of the town""s garage, a little more is learned about Macreedy""s mission to the town.It became the top-grossing (domestic) film of the year, easily beating out the # 2 filmMrs.Doubtfire (1993)at $219 million, and the # 3 filmThe Fugitive (1993)at $184 million.It was noted for its full-motion, computer-generated (CGI) dinosaurs created at George Lucas"" ILM facility.Its heme of an oppressed people""s epic move to a new home parallels he Biblical story of Exodus.Their family name, Joad, also evokes he Biblical character of Job.Nunnally Johnson""s screenplay is remarkably faithful o its Steinbeck source material.Not present in the novel or the screenplay is a tacked-on ending in the film that optimistically and sentimentally affirms the strength and human dignity of the individual spirit.