Monkey Shines

Jul 29, 1988

1h 53m

★ 6.3

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.

Overview

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.

Genres

Horror

Science Fiction

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Orion Pictures

Monkey Shines Trailers

Cast

Allan Mann

Jason Beghe

Geoffrey Fisher

John Pankow

Melanie Parker

Kate McNeil

Dorothy Mann

Joyce Van Patten

Maryanne Hodges

Christine Forrest

Dean Burbage

Stephen Root

Dr. John Wiseman

Stanley Tucci

Charlie Cunningham

Tom Quinn

Linda Aikman

Janine Turner

Doc Williams

William Newman

Esther Fry

Tudi Wiggins

Party Guest

Patricia Tallman

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