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Inside Monkey Zetterland

Plot

Actor Steven Antin wrote the screenplay, and U.S.C. film professor Jefery Levy directed this self-absorbed trifle about a self-absorbed screenwriter and his nutty family and friends. Antin plays Monkey Zetterland, an innocuous young man who is trying to work on his screenplay -- something having to do with the defunct Los Angeles streetcar system -- while a collection of relatives, friends, and neighbors continually interrupt him. His family is a collection of personified neurosis: there is Honor (Katherine Helmond) a soap-opera actress with hemorrhoids who is afraid of being fired; Grace (Patricia Arquette), his lesbian sister who is crestfallen to find that her lover Cindy (Sofia Coppola) is pregnant; brother Brent (Tate Donovan), an anal hairdresser with his elbow constantly bent over a cell phone; and Mike (Bo Hopkins), his Dad, who shows up for Thanksgiving dinner with his pet parrot. But his neighbors are no better: Imogene (Sandra Bernhard) screams to him, "I love you, Monkey Zetterland!"; Daphne (Debi Mazar) complains that Monkey doesn't spend enough time with her; Sofie (Martha Plimpton) and Sasha (Rupert Everett) are a pair of terrorists devoted to blowing up insurance companies that deny insurance policies to HIV-positive patients; and Bella (Ricki Lake), a crazed fan of Monkey's mom. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Cast

Steve Antin - Monkey Zetterland
Patricia Arquette - Grace Zetterland
Sandra Bernhard - Imogene
Sofia Coppola - Cindy
Tate Donovan - Brent Zetterland
Bo Hopkins - Mike Zetterland
Katherine Helmond - Honor Zetterland

Martha Plimpton - Sofie; Rupert Everett - Sasha; Ricki Lake - Bella; Debi Mazar - Daphne; Lance Loud - Psychiatrist; Frances Bay - Grandma; Luca Bercovici - Boot Guy; Robin Antin - Waitress; Chris Nash - Policeman; Blair Tefkin - Brent's Assistant; Robert Russell - Hasidic Jew

Credit

Jefery Levy - Director, Lauren Zuckerman - Editor, Rick Cox - Composer (Music Score), Richard Cox - Composer (Music Score), Jane Ann Stewart - Production Designer, Christopher Taylor - Cinematographer, Jefery Levy - Producer, Steve Antin - Screenwriter

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