

MOVIE
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.
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.
ERA & CONTEXT
Monkey Shines in its release era
Released in 1988, Monkey Shines sits inside the 1980s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.
- Release
- 1988-07-29
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 6.3/10
- Original language
- EN
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United States of America
- Studio
- Orion Pictures
People behind the title
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