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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."
1988 • 1h 53m • ★ 6.3 (349 votes) Released
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.
Director
George A. Romero
Screenplay
George A. Romero
Rating
6.3
Runtime
113 min
Budget
$7.0M
Revenue
$5.3M
Profit/Loss
-1.7M
Production
Orion PicturesTop Billed Cast
Videos & Trailers
Gallery
Keywords
experimentbased on novel or bookparalysisrevengeragemonkeydisabilityscience run amokanimal testinganimal research
