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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.

  • July 29, 1988
  • 1 h 53 min
  • R
  • Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
6.3TMDB · 375 votes
6.2IMDb
55%Rotten Tomatoes
71/100Metacritic

Directed by: George A. Romero

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

    Jason Beghe

    Allan Mann

  • John Pankow

    John Pankow

    Geoffrey Fisher

  • Kate McNeil

    Kate McNeil

    Melanie Parker

  • Joyce Van Patten

    Joyce Van Patten

    Dorothy Mann

  • Christine Forrest

    Christine Forrest

    Maryanne Hodges

  • Stephen Root

    Stephen Root

    Dean Burbage

  • Stanley Tucci

    Stanley Tucci

    Dr. John Wiseman

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    Tom Quinn

    Charlie Cunningham

  • Janine Turner

    Janine Turner

    Linda Aikman

  • William Newman

    William Newman

    Doc Williams

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