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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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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.
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Directed by: George A. Romero, James A. Contner
Produced by: Charles Evans, Peter Grunwald, Gerald S. Paonessa
Composed by: David Shire
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