Monkey Trouble

Monkey Trouble (1994) is a family comedy directed by Franco Amurri that you can watch online on iFILM, starring Thora Birch and Harvey Keitel in a US/UK production running 96 minutes.

Street hustler Azro has trained his capuchin monkey Dodger to pickpocket wallets and lift valuables on demand. When Azro's abuse drives Dodger to flee, the monkey lands with nine-year-old Eva — the very girl whose apartment it just robbed. Eva takes the little thief in, bonds with it, and slowly breaks its criminal habits. For Azro, who already pocketed a mob advance for a big job, losing the monkey is a catastrophe.

The film pulls off something genuinely tricky: it plays as a sweet kids' story about an unlikely friendship while keeping the crime-comedy subplot sharp enough to hold adult attention. Keitel playing bumbling rather than menacing is a treat in itself. Stream Monkey Trouble (1994) online on iFILM.