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.
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Cast
30 people
Jason Beghe
Allan Mann
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John Pankow
Geoffrey Fisher
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Kate McNeil
Melanie Parker
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Joyce Van Patten
Dorothy Mann
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Christine Forrest
Maryanne Hodges
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Stephen Root
Dean Burbage
Known for
Barry
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Stanley Tucci
Dr. John Wiseman
Known for
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Tom Quinn
Charlie Cunningham
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Super 8
Janine Turner
Linda Aikman
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Cliffhanger
Northern Exposure
William Newman
Doc Williams
Known for
The Stand
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Tudi Wiggins
Esther Fry
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Patricia Tallman
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George A. Romero Director · Michael Stewart Author David Shire Composer
Worldwide gross $5.3M · Budget $7M · United States release July 29, 1988
Box office
Budget
$7,000,000
Worldwide gross
$5,344,577
Gross vs. budget
0.8×
Production
Orion Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · July 29, 1988
Theatrical
Germany
February 23, 1989 · Theatrical
Türkiye
October 10, 1989 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
February 23, 1990 · Theatrical
October 4, 2004 · Physical · DVD
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