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.
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.
Movie: Monkey Shines
Top 10 Billed Cast
Allan Mann
Geoffrey Fisher
Melanie Parker
Dorothy Mann
Maryanne Hodges
Dean Burbage
Dr. John Wiseman
Linda Aikman
Doc Williams
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