Monkey Shines (Mass Market Paperback) Published March 28th by HarperPrism. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Michael Stewart. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Monkey Shines by Michael Stewart. A brilliant, athletic law student's life is wrecked by a road accident. As bitterness threatens to engulf him, a monkey comes to his aid. It offers him freedom through its daily .
The Movie: Written and directed by George A. Romero and based on the novel of the same name by Michael Stewart.,'s Monkey Shines hardly lit the box office on fire when it hit theatres that year but it has gone on to rightly earn itself a bit of a cult following. The story follows a young man named Allan (Jason Beghe) who is injured in a car accident. MONKEY SHINES: AN EXPERIMENT IN FEAR *** (A must-see) Directed and written by George A. Romero. I appreciate that the producers did not want to suggest that the movie is a comedy — as sticking to the title of Michael Stewart's source novel, Monkey Shines, would have done. So a subtitle is understandable as a means of labeling the contents. Monkey Shines tells the story of a friendship between a man and a monkey that turns from an affectionate, even loving companionship into a terrifying dependency after Allan, the protagonaist and a promising Oxford law student, is paralyzed in a tragic accident. Ella, a lab monkey who is involved in experiments to increase her intelligence and.
Monkey Shines (Mass Market Paperback) Published March 28th by HarperPrism. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Michael Stewart. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Monkey Shines: Directed by George A. Romero. With Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten. A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master. Presumably inspired by actual recent cases of pet monkeys offering crucial life-support to quadriplegics, British novelist Stewart offers a crisp, half-fanciful concoction--which moves, not quite convincingly, from documentary-like case history to ESP-ish, psycho-pharmaceutical suspense. Oxford law student Allan Mann is an obsessive runner with Olympics plans till, after a fight with actress-girlfriend Linda, he wrecks his motorcycle and--despite surgery by Dr. John Wiseman--winds up.
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