Monkey shines stanley tucci biography

1988 film by George A. Romero

For the 19th-century film, see Monkeyshines.

Monkey Shines (also known as Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear) is a 1988 American science fictionpsychological horror film written and directed by George A.

Romero and starring Jason Beghe, Kate McNeil, John Pankow, and Joyce Van Patten.

Monkey shines stanley tucci biography

Its plot follows a young athlete who becomes a paralyzed quadriplegic, and develops a bond with an intelligent service monkey named "Ella" who becomes homicidal after she is injected with an experimental serum of human brain tissue.

It is based on the 1983 British novel of the same title by Michael Stewart.

Producers Peter Grunwald and Charles Evans of Orion Pictures acquired the rights to Stewart's novel in 1985, and began production two years later, with Romero assigned to direct.

The film marked Romero's first major studio feature, and was his second-most expensive film at that time, with a budget of $7 million. The setting was chang