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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.

19881h 53mRHorror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller

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About Monkey Shines

Directors
George A. Romero
Cast
Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Content rating
R
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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