Monkey Shines

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.

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.

Date of release
1988-07-29
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (378)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Director
George A. Romero

Casting

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

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