Bye Bye Monkey
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. Immigrants…
Bye Bye Monkey
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. 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. —duke1029@aol.com In a dystopian, underpopulated and rat-infested New York, the young French immigrant, Lafayette, makes a living as a handyman and lighting technician at Mr Flaxman's Roman Empire Wax Museum. But when Lafayette adopts a baby chimpanzee which was found helpless next to King Kong's dead body near the Hudson, much to his surprise, a father-and-son relationship will begin, as his pregnant girlfriend is waiting for their baby's birth. In the end, is there a future in this bizarre coexistence? —Nick Riganas
Bye Bye Monkey
Comedy,Drama,Fantasy
Film Details
A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. 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. —duke1029@aol.com In a dystopian, underpopulated and rat-infested New York, the young French immigrant, Lafayette, makes a living as a handyman and lighting technician at Mr Flaxman's Roman Empire Wax Museum. But when Lafayette adopts a baby chimpanzee which was found helpless next to King Kong's dead body near the Hudson, much to his surprise, a father-and-son relationship will begin, as his pregnant girlfriend is waiting for their baby's birth.
In the end, is there a future in this bizarre coexistence? —Nick Riganas.