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Monkeys Like Becky

Rating
7.1
1,233
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Original title
Mones com la Becky
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Running time
94 min.
Country
Spain Spain
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Genre
Documentary | Biography. Medical
Synopsis
While the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in 1935, filmmakers Jordá and Villazán (who were mental patients once in their lives) reflect on modern psychiatric therapies. The title refers to the chimpanzee Becky, whose frontal lobes were removed by American physiologists John Fulton and C.F. Jacobsen, to modify her aggressive conduct in the 1930s.
Awards
1999: Sitges: Critic Award for Best Movie
2000: Ondas Awards: Jury Special Mention.
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User history
Monkeys Like Becky
1999
Joaquim Jordà, Núria Villazán
7.1
(1,233)
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