Monkey Shines

Once there was a man whose prison was a chair. The man had a monkey, they made the strangest pair. The monkey ruled the man, it climbed inside his head. And now as fate would have it, one of them is dead.

Monkey Shines (1988)

Timing: 1:53 (113 min)

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Release date

1988-07-29

Country

United States

Production

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Orion Pictures

Genre

Thriller, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Budget

$7 000 000

Revenue

$5 344 577

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Director

George A. Romero

Actors

Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, Tom Quinn, Janine Turner, William Newman
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Producer

Charles Evans, Peter Grunwald, Gerald S. Paonessa

Operator

James A. Contner

Composer

David Shire

Artist

Audition

Dianne Crittenden

Editing

Pasquale Buba
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A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

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