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Bye Bye Monkey (1978)

★ 6.3114 minDirector: Marco Ferreri

1978 Italian-French comedy-drama film

Bye Bye Monkey (Italian: Ciao maschio, French: Rêve de singe) is a 1978 Italian-French comedy-drama film, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Gail Lawrence, and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It is about a man who finds a baby chimpanzee in a giant King Kong prop, and decides to raise it like a son. It was filmed in English and shot in Long Island, New York. As this was a French-Italian co-production, French and Italian dubbed versions were made for their respective countries' theatrical releases.

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What is Bye Bye Monkey about?
Bye Bye Monkey (1978) — 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 preoccupatio
Is Bye Bye Monkey based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Bye Bye Monkey scary?
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