Monkey Shines

Monkey Shines (1988)

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.

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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  • Release Date: 1988-07-29
  • Runtime: 1h 53min
  • Director: George A. Romero

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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

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