- Actors: Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis, Marton Csokas, Abbie Cornish, William Zappa
- Directors: Samantha Lang
- Writers: Anne Kennedy, Dorothy Porter
- Producers: Domenico Procacci, John Maynard, Robert Connolly
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Strand Releasing
- Release Date: Mar 15 2002
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000639HI
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Jill (Susie Porter) is a twentysomething private investigator called up by a pair of distraught parents to find their missing daughter. The trail of the missing girl, an amateur poet, leads lesbian Jill into a strange world of sleazy literary wannabes and straight into an affair with libertine poetry professor Diana (Kelly McGillis). Australian Samantha Lang (THE WELL) directed this thriller based on the erotic mystery novel by Dorothy Porter.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Crap, utter crap,
This review is from: The Monkey's Mask (DVD)
You know when something looks so bad you just cannot look away. Well this movie is very much like that. I should have payed attention to the bad reviews of this movie, but I could not believe a movie could be so bad and so I just had to buy it. Well, buyers beware. Heed this warning if no other!! DO NOT purchase this movie, even as a resale. It is that bad; it is just plain bad.While a star rating was given, I did not wish to assign one single star; however, it seemed required in order to get this review published. A no star rating is much more fitting. I would have liked to have given a more thoughtful review of this movie, but that would have required that I watched the movie again. I could not do it, I just couldn`t do it. This movie was a failure, it failed to keep me from falling asleep, it failed to be a good story, it failed to be memorable. From what I could remember, though, it was just plain bad!! If there is anything that could be learned from this failure of a movie, please movie scholars let me know. For now, learn from my mistake, just look away and purchase something else.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good erotic thriller is somewhat eroded by pretense,
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This review is from: The Monkey's Mask (DVD)
Based on the book by Dorothy Porter, THE MONKEY'S MASK is a watchable but also rather pretentious "erotic" mystery.When a literature student Mickey (Abbie Cornish) goes missing, the girl's parents hire lesbian PI Jill Fitpatrick (Susie Porter- I'm not sure if she's any relation to the author) to try and locate their daughter. The only evidence of her last appearance is a videotape of Mickey reading a sexually explicit feminist poem, which will offend prudes, but which personally I found quite amusing. They're just words, after all. To try and piece together the clues as to Mickey's whereabouts Jill interviews the girl's lecturer Diana (Kelly McGillis) who has actually been encouraging her students to write like that. I wish my teachers had been that cool. Pretty soon Diana becomes the prime suspect. However Jill finds herself attracted to Diana; who is a straight married woman, and soon the pair begin an elicit affair which puts the whole case in jeopardy. This Australian film is a bit pretentious, as with a lot of "art" movies, but THE MONKEY'S MASK does manage to keep viewers watching with its plot twists and tricky camerawork. It gets a few demerit points for the amount of awful poetry in the film, but on the plus side there are numerous lesbian scenes between McGillis and Porter. DVD extras include a short film by the movie's director, Samantha Lang, a Dorothy Porter interview and a reading from the book (which I found boring), as well as cast and crew bios and samples of songs from the movie's soundtrack. THE MONKEY'S MASK is a good movie, but personally I found the poetry irritating. But that's just me, so if you enjoy and appreciate poetry, you'll probably raise my rating by 1 star. I'm just an uncultured chump anyway.
3.0 out of 5 stars
very erotic,
By Mel K "Laroque" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Monkey's Mask (DVD)
frankly, I just wanted to see this film for its eroticism, which I heard was incredible. but the story is actually a pretty entertaining one, albeit slow at times. i expected little, got more than i thought, but still, this flick is an easy rental at best. those are my two cents....
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