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.
| Release Date | July 29, 1988 | |
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| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Monkey Shines | |
| Runtime | 1h 53min | |
| Budget | $7,000,000 | |
| Revenue | $5,344,577 | |
| Language | English | |
| Original Language | English | |
| Production Countries | United States of America | |
| Production Companies | Orion Pictures | |