Monkeybone is a 2001 live-action/animated 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, and was directed by Henry Selick.

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Life couldn't be better for cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser). He has created a hit comic strip featuring Monkeybone (Voiced by John Turturro), a petulant rascal with a penchant for wisecracks 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 marriage 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. 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 his sister allows the doctors to pull the plug on his body. But Monkeybone has hatched his own plot that could thwart Stu's plans with the help of Hypnos the God of Sleep (Esposito)...

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2001 films | Comedy films | Films based on comics | Live-action/animated films

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