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Monkey Shines
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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“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.”
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Monkey Shines (1988) - Official Trailer (HD)
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- Jul 29, 1988
- 1h 53m
- English
- George A. Romero
- George A. Romero, Michael Stewart
- Released
- $7.0M
- $5.3M
