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.
113 min
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.
- Release date
- February 23, 1989
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $7,000,000
- Box office
- $5,344,577
Trailer
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
- Boo as Ella
- Janine Turner as Linda Aikman
- William Newman as Doc Williams
Crew
- George A. Romero · Director
- Michael Stewart · Writer
- George A. Romero · Writer
- Charles Evans · Producer
- David Shire · Composer
- James A. Contner · Cinematographer
- Pasquale Buba · Editor
- Dianne Crittenden · Casting director
- Cletus Anderson · Production designer