Monkey Business

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  • Monkey Business -- Halting comedy about an absent-minded chemist (Cary Grant) working on a youth-producing drug in a research lab where a chimpanzee concocts an effective youth formula of his own which is unwittingly tested out on the chemist and his wife (Ginger Rogers). Director Howard Hawks has a top comedy cast but the silly reversions to childhood are too thin to generate enough laughs to be very memorable. Suspicions of infidelity and other sexual innuendo. (A-III) (br) ( 1952 )




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    A-I -- general patronage;
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    Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.

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