Monkey Shines (1988)

"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."
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62
Monkey Shines
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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Movie Details

Theatrical Release:July 29th, 1988
On DVD & Blu-ray:September 28th, 1999 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$7,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$5,344,577 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Peter Grunwald, Gerald S. Paonessa
Production Companies:Orion Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer