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Life couldn't be better for [[cartoonist]] Stu Miley (Fraser). He has created a hit [[comic strip]] featuring Monkeybone (Voiced by [[John Turturro]]), a petulant [[rascal]] with a penchant for [[slang|wisecrack]]s and racy antics. Stu, happy and in love with his beautiful girlfriend Julie ([[Bridget Fonda|Fonda]]) is on the verge of big success, as his comic strip is about to become a [[Television syndication|national]] [[television show]]. But on the night Stu is to propose [[marriage]] to Julie, he is struck down in a freak accident. While Stu's body lies [[coma|comatose]] and Julie maintains a constant bedside [[vigil]] his conscious [[spirit]] is transported to Downtown, a [[purgatory]]-like [[limbo]] existing between life and death. Downtown has a [[carnival]] landscape populated by [[mythology|mythical]] [[deity|gods]] and [[creature]]s who revel in the [[nightmare]]s of the living. Upon his arrival, Stu learns his ominous fate: There's no turning back. Just as things seem like they couldn't get any worse, Stu's [[alter ego]], Monkeybone, springs to life to stir up some trouble. Now, Stu must outwit [[Death (personification)|Death]] ([[Whoopi Goldberg|Goldberg]]) in order to return to the world of the living before his sister allows the doctors to pull the [[life support|plug]] on his body. But Monkeybone has hatched his own plot that could thwart Stu's plans with the help of [[Hypnos]] the God of Sleep ([[Giancarlo Esposito|Esposito]])... |
Life couldn't be better for [[cartoonist]] Stu Miley ([[Brendan Fraser|Fraser]]). He has created a hit [[comic strip]] featuring Monkeybone (Voiced by [[John Turturro]]), a petulant [[rascal]] with a penchant for [[slang|wisecrack]]s and racy antics. Stu, happy and in love with his beautiful girlfriend Julie ([[Bridget Fonda|Fonda]]) is on the verge of big success, as his comic strip is about to become a [[Television syndication|national]] [[television show]]. But on the night Stu is to propose [[marriage]] to Julie, he is struck down in a freak accident. While Stu's body lies [[coma|comatose]] and Julie maintains a constant bedside [[vigil]] his conscious [[spirit]] is transported to Downtown, a [[purgatory]]-like [[limbo]] existing between life and death. Downtown has a [[carnival]] landscape populated by [[mythology|mythical]] [[deity|gods]] and [[creature]]s who revel in the [[nightmare]]s of the living. Upon his arrival, Stu learns his ominous fate: There's no turning back. Just as things seem like they couldn't get any worse, Stu's [[alter ego]], Monkeybone, springs to life to stir up some trouble. Now, Stu must outwit [[Death (personification)|Death]] ([[Whoopi Goldberg|Goldberg]]) in order to return to the world of the living before his sister allows the doctors to pull the [[life support|plug]] on his body. But Monkeybone has hatched his own plot that could thwart Stu's plans with the help of [[Hypnos]] the God of Sleep ([[Giancarlo Esposito|Esposito]])... |
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== Graphic novel == |
== Graphic novel == |
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Revision as of 05:39, 3 December 2006
| Monkeybone | |
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 The movie cover for Monkeybone. | |
| Directed by | Henry Selick |
| Written by | Kaja Blackley Sam Hamm |
| Produced by | Michael Barnathan Mark Radcliffe |
| Starring | Brendan Fraser Bridget Fonda Whoopi Goldberg Rose McGowan Giancarlo Esposito Chris Kattan |
| Music by | Anne Dudley |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | February 23 2001 |
Running time | 77 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75,000,000 (estimated) |
Monkeybone is a 2001 live action/animated film based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel Dark Town. The movie stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Giancarlo Esposito & Chris Kattan, and was directed by Henry Selick.
Plot
Life couldn't be better for cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser). He has created a hit comic strip featuring Monkeybone (Voiced by John Turturro), a petulant rascal with a penchant for wisecracks and racy antics. Stu, happy and in love with his beautiful girlfriend Julie (Fonda) is on the verge of big success, as his comic strip is about to become a national television show. But on the night Stu is to propose marriage to Julie, he is struck down in a freak accident. While Stu's body lies comatose and Julie maintains a constant bedside vigil his conscious spirit is transported to Downtown, a purgatory-like limbo existing between life and death. Downtown has a carnival landscape populated by mythical gods and creatures who revel in the nightmares of the living. Upon his arrival, Stu learns his ominous fate: There's no turning back. Just as things seem like they couldn't get any worse, Stu's alter ego, Monkeybone, springs to life to stir up some trouble. Now, Stu must outwit Death (Goldberg) in order to return to the world of the living before his sister allows the doctors to pull the plug on his body. But Monkeybone has hatched his own plot that could thwart Stu's plans with the help of Hypnos the God of Sleep (Esposito)...
Graphic novel
The graphic novel Dark Town, on which Monkeybone is very loosely based, was created by Kaja Blackley and illustrated by Vanessa Chong. The graphic novel was published by Mad Monkey Press specifically in the hopes that a film would be based on it. There was little interest in this graphic novel, and publication ceased after the first book of the series.
Trivia
The painting, supposedly drawn by Stu before undergoing therapy, is very similar to The Birth, by Mark Ryden. Much of the film's art bears a strong resemblance to that of Ryden, for example the depiction of Abraham Lincoln as "The Great Emancipator", however Ryden is not credited.
External links
- Monkeybone at IMDb
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