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      • The film is also helped by some terrific performances by a uniformly excellent cast who really nail their respective roles. In particular, Jason Beghe (channelling Robert De Niro at one point) is excellent as Allan and John Pankow fantastic as his slightly shadowy friend.
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  2. Monkey Shines (also known as Monkey Shines: An Experiment in Fear) is a 1988 American science fiction psychological horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Jason Beghe, Kate McNeil, John Pankow, and Joyce Van Patten.

  3. Aug 10, 2024 · "Monkey Shines" provided Jason Beghe with his first major role as a leading man, and he made a memorable impression by using the terror in his voice and eyes to convey the seriousness of the ...

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  4. Allan (Jason Beghe) undergoes rehabilitation therapy and returns home with one of those wheelchairs that can be controlled by breathing into a tube. Not much goes right. His girlfriend jilts him and goes to live with his insufferably pompous surgeon. He is doted on by a smothering mother. His best pal, a brilliant chemist, is a speed freak.

  5. Athlete Allan (Jason Beghe) becomes quadriplegic after a horrific traffic accident. His friend Geoffrey (John Pankow), who is conducting experiments with monkeys, offers Allan a well-trained ...

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    • George A. Romero
    • R
    • Jason Beghe
  6. 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.

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    • Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
    • George A. Romero
    • 1988-07-29
  7. Oct 28, 2021 · George A. Romero's Monkey Shines is the story of Allan Mann (Jason Beghe), an athlete who is struck down by a semi-truck at the start of the movie, rendering him quadriplegic. He is forced to use one of those wheelchairs operated by blowing into a straw in order to get around, and after he hits

  8. Romero was always very good at the human element. The film suffers from some strange pacing decisions, especially in the first act, but it's definitely worth sticking with. Once the foundations are put in place, the whole thing becomes easy to buy into. Jason Beghe makes for a likable lead, but of course it is Boo the monkey that…