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.
Film19881h 53m
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- Director
- George A. Romero
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1988-07-29
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
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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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