

Monkey Business
It's some fun!
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
- $2M
- Language
- English
- marriage
- romcom
- water cooler
- chemist
- potion
- screwball comedy
- absurdist
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United StatesUS
- PremiereAtlantic City, New Jersey29 Aug 1952
- TheatricalNew York City, New York3 Sept 1952
- Theatrical5 Sept 1952
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP24 Dec 1952
- TheatricalTPRe-release11 Jan 2000
- TheatricalTPRe-release (Restored Version)29 Nov 2017
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT31 Dec 1952
NetherlandsNL
- TheatricalAL19 Dec 1952
PhilippinesPH
- TheatricalDavao9 Dec 1952
PortugalPT
- Theatrical9 Feb 1953
- Theatrical (limited)Porto, Batalha Centro de Cinema30 May 2026
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl7 Nov 1952
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Monkey Business was released on 3 September 1952.
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CinemaSerf
7/14/2024
Cary Grant is the professor "Fulton" working for "Oxley" (Charles Coburn) on a project to find some way of turning back time and reversing the ageing process. They are experimenting with various formulae on a selection of rather agile chimps, and it's actually one of them who manages to co come up with a solution that when, inadvertently, added to the water in the cooler manages to turn the academic into a small chil…
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