Monkey Shines
1988/07/29 (US) | Horror, Science Fiction, Drama
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.
George A. Romero
Screenplay
George A. Romero
Director
Lead Cast
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
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Budget
$ 7,000,000
Revenue
$ 5,344,577
Status
Released
Production Company
- Orion Pictures
Crews
Pasquale Buba
Editor
Charles Evans
Producer
James A. Contner
Director of Photography
David Shire
Original Music Composer
Michael Stewart
Novel
Peter Grunwald
Executive Producer