Product Details

• Actors: Thora Birch, Harvey Keitel, Finster, Mimi Rogers, Christopher McDonald
• Directors: Franco Amurri
• Writers: Franco Amurri, Stu Krieger
• Producers: Christian Halsey Solomon, Heide Rufus Isaacs, John C. Broderick, Mimi Polk Gitlin, Ridley Scott
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 9, 1997
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304502249
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #531,276 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A movie only a kid could love, which was the whole point. Harvey Keitel plays a small-time thief who performs as an organ grinder on the boardwalk at Venice Beach. His scam involves his monkey, which has been trained to pick pockets. Now a mob boss wants to borrow the monkey to pull off some big scores--but the monkey runs away and is adopted by a lonely little girl (Thora Birch). She finds herself in increasingly hot water when her new pet starts bringing her the valuables of everyone in the neighborhood. Birch is a natural young actress, while Keitel hams it up shamelessly (he reportedly made the film to amuse his young daughter). --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun family movie with a cute star, January 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Monkey Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a fun movie that the whole family can enjoy together. The star is a monkey named Dodger who is amazingly well trained. He is not really bad- he's just been trained to do bad things by his gypsy owner (Harvey Keitel who has a lot of fun with the villan role). The kids in this movie are cute, especially the younger brother, and the locations around the L.A. area are beautiful. There's also some interesting comparisons between the monkey's family unit and the little girls.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!! You'll LOVE this movie!! Its my Fave!, May 26, 2001

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Hardyz_Princess (Cameron, North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monkey Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

About a young girl name Eva, Who badly wants a dog or any pet of her own to love, But her parents say no.So as she walks home from school she comes face to face with the cutest monkey and names him Dodger and secretly takes him home, even though her step-dad is allergic to fur!!! But Eva has no idea Dodger belongs to a Bum who makes money on the boardwalk using Dodger to steal people's stuff!! A AWESOME movie you'll watch again and again!! GET IT NOW!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this movie!!!!, October 13, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Monkey Trouble [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this is that kind of movie where you could sit there all weekend watching it over and over and over again!