Monkeybone

Monkeybone is a 2001 film based on Kaja Blackley's graphic novel "Dark Town". The movie stars Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Rose McGowan, Giancarlo Esposito & Chris Kattan.

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Life couldn't be better for cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser). He has created a hit comic strip featuring Monkeybone, a petulant rascal with a penchant for wise cracks and racy antics. Stu, happy and in love with his beautiful girlfriend Julie (Fonda) is on the verge of big success, as his comic strip is about to become a national television show. But on the night Stu is to propose to Julie, he is struck down in a freak accident. While Stu's body lies comatose - and Julie maintains a constant bedside vigil - his conscious spirit is transported to Downtown, a purgatory-like limbo existing between life and death. Downtown has a carnival landscape populated by mythical gods and creatures who revel in the nightmares of the living. Upon his arrival, Stu learns his ominous fate: There's no turning back. And just as things seem like they couldn't get any worse, Stu's alter ego, Monkeybone, springs to life to stir up some trouble. Now, Stu must outwit Death (Goldberg) in order to return to the world of the living before the doctors pull the plug on Stu's body. But Monkeybone has hatched his own plot that could thwart Stu's plans with the help of Hypnos the God of Sleep (Esposito)...

Brendan Fraser: Brendan Fraser (born December 3, 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a popular Canadian-American actor of Irish Catholic descent....

Bridget Fonda: Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, mother Susan Brewer and aunt Jane Fonda. She attended New York University when she was 18 and also went...

Whoopi Goldberg: Caryn Elaine Johnson, better known by her stage name, Whoopi Goldberg (born November 13, 1955 (although many sources indicate 1949), in New York City), is a well-known American movie actress, comedian, and singer. Although her father was a Protestant preacher, Goldberg says that her family is of mix...

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