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Monkeybone
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Henry Selick
Written by
Sam Hamm
Based on
Dark Town by Kaja Blackley
Produced by
Michael Barnathan
Mark Radcliffe
Starring
Brendan Fraser
Bridget Fonda
Chris Kattan
Giancarlo Esposito
Rose McGowan
Whoopi Goldberg
Cinematography
Andrew Dunn
Edited by
Jon Poll
Nicholas C. Smith
Mark Warner
Music by
Anne Dudley
Production company
1492 Pictures
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date
February 23, 2001 (2001-02-23)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$75 million[2]
Box office
$7.6 million[2]
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.
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]
^"Monkeybone (PG)". British Board of Film Classification. March 1, 2001. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^ abCite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Rebecca Ascher-Walsh. "Why "Monkeybone" flopped at the box office". Entertainment Weekly.
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