Monkey Shines (1988)

07/29/1988 1h 53m

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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Overview

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 Ages at Release

Jason Beghe

as Allan Mann

Born 03/12/1960, age

John Pankow

as Geoffrey Fisher

Born 04/28/1954, age

Kate McNeil

as Melanie Parker

Born 08/17/1959, age

Joyce Van Patten

as Dorothy Mann

Born 03/09/1934, age

Stephen Root

as Dean Burbage

Born 11/17/1951, age

Stanley Tucci

as Dr. John Wiseman

Born 11/11/1960, age

Janine Turner

as Linda Aikman

Born 12/06/1962, age

Patricia Tallman

as Party Guest

Born 09/04/1957, age