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The Monkey Folk

Q: What does the AI analysis say about The Monkey Folk?

WatchMind AI scores The Monkey Folk as Documentary with balanced tone tone and fast-paced pacing (78% on TMDb). The Monkey Folk is a film worth prioritising when you want something with strong audience scores — our AI analysis flags it as a strong match for its genre and tone profile.

Released

1989-05-26

Rating

78%

Type

Movie

Runtime

1h 25m

Documentary

AI Analysis

The Monkey Folk (1989) — AI movie analysis

WatchMind AI

WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The Monkey Folk (1989) — a movie tagged as Documentary with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.

Story & themes: This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length an… Our models also surface themes such as identity, conflict, and relationships from synopsis and genre signals.

Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~85 min).

Community signal: TMDb members rate The Monkey Folk 78% (2 votes) — strong audience scores for this movie.

AI verdict

The Monkey Folk is a film worth prioritising when you want something with strong audience scores — our AI analysis flags it as a strong match for its genre and tone profile.

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Synopsis

This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans and many other relatives of humankind to the screen. Because of its length and extensive coverage of its subject, it is of particular interest to those who are already keenly interested in its subject matter.

Quick facts

Type: Movie
Status: Released
Release date: 1989-05-26
Runtime: 1h 25m
TMDB rating: 7.8
TMDB ID: 196904

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The official runtime for The Monkey Folk is approximately 85 minutes.

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Michel Piccoli

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