Monkey Trouble
Monkey Trouble is a 1994 comedy film directed by Franco Amurri and starring Thora Birch.
One day, a Capuchin monkey named Fingers runs away from his drunken master, a gypsy thief named Azro, who had trained the monkey to pick pockets and now blames him for Azros domestic woes. He meets Eva in the park, and she names him Dodger. At home, she finds that keeping him a secret is trouble. She only allows her toddler brother Jack, who cannot speak yet, into her room with Dodger.As Eva spends certain weekends with her father, one of those weekends arrives. However, Peter leaves a phone message that hes in Canada and cant have Eva over. Eva takes advantage of this circumstance to have a personal weekend alone with Dodger in her fathers empty house, and hides her fathers answering machine announcement from her mother and stepfather, and has her friends mother drive her over to her fathers house. Once there, they realize that they have no food, but they manage to raise money at the nearby boardwalk with Dodger who is secretly pickpocketing everybody as a main attraction. At a grocery store that evening, Dodger steals food and hides it in Evas backpack, but Eva catches him in the act and returns the stolen groceries. When she returns home, she discovers golden jewelry and wallets in her backpack that the monkey had also stolen. So Eva spends the rest of the weekend teaching Dodger not to steal. ........
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