Link

1986 · 103 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 4,010 VOTES · DIR. Richard Franklin

Overview

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.

Dialogue Timeline — 142 lines

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00:06:39 What else?
00:06:57 between... that monkey and me.
00:08:04 That nothing separates us from the apes.
00:09:46 I ask you to read Desmond... and Grevin...
00:12:50 Er, tell me!
00:27:14 Link, I think the lady does not understand very well.
00:27:34 Man is the only one to have mastered it and in doing so
00:27:49 I thought you had read...
00:28:05 I guess. You were about five years old when the book was published.
00:28:20 I mean that one of the reasons that pushed me to come here, to leave my country
00:28:40 Man is not only narrow minded but also stupid and violent
00:28:58 when your country signed the Declaration of Independence.
00:29:16 The chimpanzees?
00:29:32 Good night.
00:30:09 I signed it.
00:30:28 My wife let me down.
00:30:48 Me too.
00:31:51 All right. Good night old boy!
00:37:30 and of course you defeat our hairy cousin hands down.
00:37:43 I even tried with real ones. He had the right to eat one
00:44:39 You don't know how to use an oven!
01:08:46 Get up and look over here. Come on!
01:09:01 You close and you open. Okay?
01:45:08 I hope it will start.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed142
Dialogue density1.4 lines / min
First line00:06:39
Final line01:45:08

Production Record

DirectorRichard Franklin
LanguageEnglish
Revenue$1,720,450
IMDb votes4,010