Bye Bye Monkey
Synopsis
Immigrants Luigi and Lafayette work for Andreas Flaxman at his wax museum in Lower Manhattan. Luigi, an asthmatic middle-aged romantic, works as an artist/sculptor while the Lafayette functions as a jack-of-all trades for Flaxman, who is obsessed with Ancient Rome, a preoccupation that most of his exhibits reflect. Lafayette lives in a rat-infested basement some blocks away and carries a whistle with to scare the rodents, which seem to be endemic to the area. He also works as a stagehand for a feminist theater group in their Off-off Broadway theater where he suffers their sexist abuses including being forced to wear a leotard. Angelica, one of the beautiful actresses in the troupe is attracted to him, and they begin a relationship. At the same time Luigi comes across the 50 foot model of King Kong in a Hudson River landfill, apparently discarded after the 1976 movie version of "King Kong." There he finds an orphaned baby chimpanzee which he takes to be the giant simian's son. Allergic to animals, he gives it to Lafayette to adopt. Complications arise when Flaxman advises him to get rid of the monkey and Angelica becomes pregnant.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Alliance Film Communication (AFC), Prospectacle, Action Films
- Foreign production company : 18 Dicembre Cinematografica
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont, Jupiter Communications/Jupiter Films
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Maurice Bernart, Yves Peyrot, Yves Gasser
- Screenwriters : Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Gérard Brach
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant Director : Laurent Ferrier
- Editor : Ruggero Mastroianni
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Foreign Producer : Giorgio Nocella
- Author of original work : Marco Ferreri
- Executive Producer : Jacqueline Ferreri
- Sound Assistant : Louis Gimel
- Production Designer : Dante Ferretti
- Still Photographer : Catherine Faux
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Philosophical tale
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1978
- French release : 24/05/1978
- Runtime : 1 h 55 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 47956
- Visa issue date : 12/06/1978
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Mono
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