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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."
User Score349 votes
63%6.3/10
Release1988→
Runtime1H 53M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
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.
Principal Cast8
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
Media25
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Director
George A. Romero
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Budget$7M
Revenue$5M
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RKeywords
experimentbased on novel or bookparalysisrevengeragemonkeydisabilityscience run amokanimal testinganimal research
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Countries:United States of America
Production:Orion Pictures