Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
Ciao maschio (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Gérard Depardieu	...	Gerard Lafayette
	Marcello Mastroianni	...	Luigi Nocello
	James Coco	...	Andreas Flaxman
	Geraldine Fitzgerald	...	Mrs. Toland
	Abigail Clayton	...	Angelica (as Gail Lawrence)
	Stefania Casini	...	Feminist Actress
	Francesca De Sapio
	Mimsy Farmer	...	Feminist Actress
	Avon Long	...	Miko
	Nathalie Bernart
	Sandra Monteleoni
	Enrico Blasi
	Anselma Dell'Ollo
	Luciano Pallocchia
	Achille Antonaglia

Storyline

Immigrants Luigi and Lafayette work for Andreas Waxman at his wax museum in Lower Manhattan. Luigi, an asthmatic middle-aged romantic, works as an artist/sculptor while the Lafayette functions as a jack-of-all trades for Flaxman, who is obsessed with Ancient Rome, a preoccupation that most of his exhibits reflect. Lafayette lives in a rat-infested basement some blocks away and carries a whistle with to scare the rodents, which seem to be endemic to the area. He also works as a stagehand for a feminist theater group in their Off-off Broadway Theater where he suffers their sexist abuses including being forced to wear a leotard. Angelica, one of the beautiful actresses in the troupe is attracted to him, and they begin a relationship. At the same time Luigi comes across the 50 foot model of King Kong in a Hudson River landfill, apparently discarded after the 1976 version of "King Kong." There he finds an orphaned baby chimpanzee which he takes to be the giant simian's son... Written by duke1029@aol.com  

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