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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date1988-07-29
Languageen
Runtime1h 53m
Budget$7,000,000
Revenue$5,344,577
Production

Orion Pictures

6.3(375)
•1988•1h 53m

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."

Overview

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.

Writing & Screenplay
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