Monkey Shines (1988)

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"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."

Movie · 1988 · 1h 53m · Released · Rated R · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller

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.

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Cast

  • Jason Beghe as Allan Mann
  • John Pankow as Geoffrey Fisher
  • Kate McNeil as Melanie Parker
  • Joyce Van Patten as Dorothy Mann
  • Christine Forrest as Maryanne Hodges
  • Stephen Root as Dean Burbage
  • Stanley Tucci as Dr. John Wiseman
  • Tom Quinn as Charlie Cunningham
  • Janine Turner as Linda Aikman
  • William Newman as Doc Williams

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