Inside Monkey Zetterland
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| Directed by | Jefery Levy |
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Louis Alexander (associate producer) Steve Antin (co-producer) Tani Cohen (producer) Kristi Frankenheimer (line producer) (as Kristi Frankenheimer-Davis) Chuck Grieve (executive producer) Chuck Grieve (producer) Jefery Levy (executive producer) Louis J. Pearlman (executive producer) Greta von Steinbauer (co-producer) Lee West (associate producer) Lee West (executive producer) |
| Written by |
Steve Antin John Boskovich |
| Starring |
Steve Antin Patricia Arquette Sandra Bernhard Sofia Coppola |
| Music by |
Rick Cox Jeff Elmassian |
| Cinematography | Christopher Taylor |
| Edited by | Lauren Zuckerman |
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| Distributed by | IRS Media |
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93 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $121,475 (USA) |
Inside Monkey Zetterland is a 1992 independent film penned by former child actor Steve Antin.
Struggling former child actor and now-adult screenwriter Monkey Zetterland (Antin) is working on a historical screenplay based around the defunct Red Car subway of Los Angeles. He lives in a building owned by his neurotic mother Honor Zetterland (Katherine Helmond), who is a famous soap opera star. Secretly hoping there is a future in acting for Monkey, she is trying to turn her hairdresser son (his brother) Brent Zetterland (Tate Donovan) into a film star.
As the film begins, Honor shows up at Monkey's house to borrow his epsom salts at the same time that his disagreeable girlfriend Daphne (Debi Mazar) arrives. From this point on the film dissolves into a character study with little plot development as new and old characters interact and form a quirky family unit. Sister Grace Zetterland (Patricia Arquette) arrives in tears to reveal that her lesbian girlfriend (Sophia Coppola) has gotten pregnant in an attempt to bring the two of them closer. Honor rents the basement apartment to Sascha (Rupert Everett) and Sofie (Martha Plimpton), a gay man and lesbian posing as husband and wife while publishing an underground newsletter that outs closeted homosexuals in the entertainment industry.
As if this weren't enough, a creepy woman (Ricki Lake) shows up with a fan letter for Honor, and another kooky lady, Imogene (Sandra Bernhard), begins heavily, openly pursuing Monkey's attention. After a series of confrontations, Daphne moves out, and around the same time the family's absentee father (who has frequently left home for long periods of time throughout their lives) surfaces in time for Thanksgiving.
While everyone busies themselves with their personal issues, Grace discovers that Sascha and Sofie are in fact terrorists who intend to bomb a local insurance agency that is denying medical coverage to people with HIV and AIDS. Sofie comes up with a plan to send Grace into the agency with a bomb, which Grace and Sascha believe is set up to give Grace enough time to escape. It is not, and Grace dies in the explosion.
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