Spanking the Monkey
by David O. Russell
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Actor: Alberta Watson, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo, Elizabeth Newett, Jeremy DaviesDirector: David O. Russell
Producer: David O. Russell
Writer: David O. Russell
Producer: Cheryl Miller Houser
Producer: Dean Silvers
Producer: Janet Grillo
Producer: Jon Resnik
Producer: Stanley F. Buchthal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Spanking the Monkey
Movie Review: a trip out movie
Summary: 3 Stars
one night a few weeks back this film came on cable and I thought I gotta check this film out. and talk about dysfunctional? the Mother and Son was more twisted than what you see on Jerry Springer,but yet it draws you in.very cleaver written and directed and the pacing as well.
Summary of Spanking the Monkey
A critically acclaimed, outrageously offbeat look at growing up! Looking forward to a prestigious summer internship in Washington, D.C., pre-med college student Raymond (Saving Private Ryan's Jeremy Davies) has his dreams put on hold when he's forced to stay at home caring for his invalid mother (Alberta Watson, The Sweet Hereafter, TV's 24). Constantly harassed by his domineering, travelling salesman father, Raymond struggles to deal with his mother's bed-ridden anxieties and his first, stumbling attempts to romance the naive girl next door.Jeremy Davies, so weaselly as the interpreter in Saving Private Ryan, got his break in this 1994 dark comedy debut by writer-director David O. Russell. Davies plays a college student whose entire future seems to implode when his traveling-salesman father forces him to stay home for the summer and take care of his mother, who is recovering from a broken leg. In anguish, he gives up a prestigious summer internship and moves back to the house where he grew up. There, he distracts himself with masturbation and lots of long walks, and even a half-hearted courtship of a much younger girl. But his proximity to his mother provides surprising preoccupations and impulses, which give this film the best of its squirmy humor. Russell, a sharp-eyed observer of surreptitious human behavior, extracts wonderfully drawn performances from Davies and Alberta Watson as his mother in this unexpected delight. --Marshall Fine
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