AKA: Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear
After being stricken down in an accident that renders him quadriplegic, a young man is gifted a service animal in the form of a sweet and lovable lab monkey being treated with an intelligence serum, who he quickly develops a close bond with. The first half of this film is genuinely engaging, though it loses some steam as it falls into the more predictable pitfalls of the genre.
Despite the prevalence of the monkey with cymbals on all the advertisements (reminiscent of Stephen King's short story The Monkey), there were in fact real capuchin monkeys used in the film and the toy never once appears on screen. This has always driven me fucking nuts.
3 monkey mind melds out of 5
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