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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."

R 1988 · 1h 53m · Drama, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction
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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.

Theatrical
Jul 29, 1988
Box Office
$5.3M
Budget
$7.0M
Return
0.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 28, 1999
Theaters
1
Director
George A. Romero
Writer
George A. Romero
Producers
Charles Evans, Peter Grunwald, Gerald S. Paonessa
Music
David Shire
Studio
Orion Pictures
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