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Bye Bye Monkey

Name: Bye Bye Monkey
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1978-02-24
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 6.2

★ 6,2 /10 (45 Votes)

1978 IT 113 min

Overview

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Release date

24/02/1978

Votes

Popularity

1.3

Genres

Comedy Drama

Status

Released

Original title

Ciao maschio

Language

Runtime

113 min

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Lafayette

Marcello Mastroianni

Luigi Nocello

James Coco

Andreas Flaxman

Abigail Clayton

Angelica

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Mrs. Toland

Stefania Casini

Feminist Actress

Francesca De Sapio

Mimsy Farmer

Feminist Actress

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Avon Long

Miko

Nathalie Bernart

Sandra Monteleoni

Enrico Blasi

Selma Dell'Olio

Luciano Pallocchia

Achille Antonaglia

William Berger

Paul Jefferson

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Rosa Maria Calogero

(as Rosamaria Calogero)

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BYE BYE MONKEY (1978) - Sadly unable to find an American theatrical distributor when initially released, director Marco Ferreri's visual treatise on gender roles and human civilization - while often inscrutable - is kept afloat by sympathetic performances and startling visuals. Gerard Depardieu - who was perhaps the most daring actor working circa the late-'70s - is once again totally uninhibited as a man who finds a baby monkey in the shadow of the World Trade Center and decides to raise it as his own; Marcello Mastroianni has several touching moments as a sexually frustrated misfit who has b…

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