Monkeybone
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Monkeybone is a 2001 American black comedy fantasy film directed by Henry Selick, written by Sam Hamm, produced by Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe, and executive produced by Chris Columbus, Selick, and Hamm. The film combines live-action with stop-motion animation. Loosely based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel Dark Town, the film stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, Giancarlo Esposito, Rose McGowan, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Turturro as the voice of the titular character. It tells the story of a cartoonist who ends up in a coma where he ends up in the location of Down Town where he runs into the titular character as he works to get back to the living while contending with an evil plot to supply Down Town with nightmares.
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Directed by | Henry Selick |
Written by | Sam Hamm |
Based on | Dark Town by Kaja Blackley |
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Cinematography | Andrew Dunn |
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Music by | Anne Dudley |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 93 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $75 million[2] |
Box office | $7.6 million[2] |
Theatrically released on February 23, 2001, by 20th Century Fox, the film was a box-office bomb and received generally negative critical reviews for its visuals, characters, and humor.[3]