Movie Settings Database

Monkey Shines

Where:

Pennsylvania

When:

The 1980s

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.

Released in 1988 — 113 minutes

Genres:

Thriller Drama Horror Science Fiction

Language:

English