

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.
6.3(380)19881h 53m4
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7M
- Box office
- $5.3M
- Language
- English
- experiment
- based on novel or book
- paralysis
- revenge
- rage
- monkey
- disability
- science run amok
- animal testing
- animal research
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR29 Jul 1988
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1823 Feb 1990
- Physical18DVD4 Oct 2004
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1823 Feb 1989
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical10 Oct 1989
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Monkey Shines was released on 29 July 1988.
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