Spanking the Monkey (1994)

100 min · Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy drama, drama film

Popularity4.5/5

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Directors

David O. Russell

Cast

Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo, Judette Jones, Zak Orth, Matthew Puckett, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Judah Domke

The story

Ray Aibelli has finished his first year of college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is forced to forego a prestigious medical internship he earned to take care of his mother, Susan. She has suffered a leg injury keeping her homebound just as her husband, Tom, is about to leave for an extended period to work as a traveling salesman.

Catalogue themes and tags

Business Trip, Familie, Internship, Inzucht, Mother Son Relationship, Muttermal, Selbstbefriedigung, Shower, Student of Medicine, Untreue, ehebruch, strange Family, Black comedy, Domestic Comedy, Indie, Comedy

Genres

Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy drama, drama film

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