Rotten
A befuddled story about a man constrained from the neck down told by a director confused from the neck up.
Variety Staff, Variety
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.
1988 · 1h 53m · R
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
George A. Romero
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Monkey Shines
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.
Director and cast
- George A. Romero Director
- Jason Beghe as Allan Mann
- John Pankow as Geoffrey Fisher
- Kate McNeil as Melanie Parker
- Joyce Van Patten as Dorothy Mann
- Christine Forrest as Maryanne Hodges
- Stephen Root as Dean Burbage
- Stanley Tucci as Dr. John Wiseman
- Tom Quinn as Charlie Cunningham
- Janine Turner as Linda Aikman
- William Newman as Doc Williams
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of George Romero's most effective and interesting horror thrillers.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Romero's is a formidable talent which others can only hope to ape.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
A film that begins in sentimentality and ends in ludicrous melodrama.
Caryn James, New York Times
Rotten
Somewhere within this movie's two hours or so is hidden an absolutely spellbinding 90-minute thriller.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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