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Spanking the Monkey (1994)

dir: David O. Russell

Susan Aibelli (Alberta Watson), a married, lonely woman, suffers a leg injury at home just as her husband is about to leave on his job as a travelling salesman and her son, Raymond (Jeremy Davies), is about to leave for the summer on a medical internship. Her son is forced to stay at home to take care of her as his father is gone. He loses both the internship and his girlfriend. These troublesome events leave him emotionally confused as he and his mother are left alone together, and they develop an incestuous relationship.

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Stain Stain wrote about Spanking the Monkey

Just as some smaller films, I swear, only managed to get a distributor because of the naked babes therein, I think this one only received any attention because of its naughty subject matter... which isn't handled in a particularly insightful, clever, or funny manner. At least John Waters would have made an impression with this kind of movie, even if only a very bad one. An inauspicious beginning to a thoroughly unremarkable directorial career

6 stars