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.


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.
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Jason Beghe
Allan Mann

John Pankow
Geoffrey Fisher

Kate McNeil
Melanie Parker

Joyce Van Patten
Dorothy Mann

Christine Forrest
Maryanne Hodges

Stephen Root
Dean Burbage

Stanley Tucci
Dr. John Wiseman

Janine Turner
Linda Aikman
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