Spanking The Monkey Details

Spanking The Monkey

One of America's most acclaimed contemporary screenwriters and directors, David O. Russell made his feature film debut in 1994 with the black comedy Spanking The Monkey, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and caused a stir with its incestuous subplot and portrayal of adolescent restlessness. The film also displays much of what has become Russell's trademark idiosyncratic, offbeat humour, later seen in Flirting With Disaster, the iconoclastic Three Kings and the existential comedy I Heart Huckabees, marking him as a special director with cult appeal.

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.

Starring	Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Carla Gallo, Benjamin Hendrickson
Director	David O. Russell
Studio	AXIOM FILMS INTERNATIONAL LTD
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 35 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	English
Released	DVD: 25 Jun 2007 Production year: 1994
Format	DVD