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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.

1988 · R · 1h 53m

Directed by George A. Romero

6.3

TMDB audience score
384 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Jason Beghe
    Allan Mann

  • John Pankow
    Geoffrey Fisher

  • Kate McNeil
    Melanie Parker

  • Joyce Van Patten
    Dorothy Mann

  • Christine Forrest
    Maryanne Hodges

  • Stephen Root
    Dean Burbage

  • Stanley Tucci
    Dr. John Wiseman

  • Tom Quinn
    Charlie Cunningham

  • Janine Turner
    Linda Aikman

  • William Newman
    Doc Williams

  • Tudi Wiggins
    Esther Fry

  • Patricia Tallman
    Party Guest

  • David Early
    Anesthetist

  • Eric Morgan Stuart

  • Brad Long
    BAMF in Red Jacket

  • Robert Hendren
    Orderly

  • Debra Gordon
    E.R. Nurse

  • Kate English
    Scrub Nurse