Bye Bye Monkey (1978) on Netflix
NR19781h 53mComedyDramaFantasy
Lafayette, a French electrician in New York City, works for Andreas Flaxman's wax museum and lights a feminist theater stage. He adopts a baby chimpanzee found in a giant King Kong sculpture.
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- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb6.3/101,488 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes60%
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Plot summary
A young French electrician named Lafayette lives on his own in a basement in a darkly surreal New York City where rats and a few eccentrics remain. He works at a wax museum of Roman Empire scenes owned by Andreas Flaxman, where the sculptor Luigi Nocello maintains the displays. Lafayette also serves as a lighting technician for a feminist theater group, where the actress Angelica is drawn to him. At the Battery Park City construction site beside the Hudson River, he encounters Luigi and several eccentrics who come upon an abandoned baby chimpanzee in a giant King Kong sculpture's palm. Lafayette chooses to raise the animal, and Flaxman warns that keeping it will cost him his freedom.
Cast
- Avon Longas Miko
- Nathalie Bernart
- Sandra Monteleoni
- Enrico Blasi
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
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- Bye Bye Monkey was presented in the official competition at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where it shared the Grand Prize of the Jury with Jerzy Skolimowski's The Shout.
