A movie only a kid could love, which was the whole point. Harvey Keitel plays a small-time thief who performs as an organ grinder on the boardwalk at Venice Beach. His scam involves his monkey, which has been trained to pick pockets. Now a mob boss wants to borrow the monkey to pull off some big scores--but the monkey runs away and is adopted by a lonely little girl (Thora Birch). She finds herself in increasingly hot water when her new pet starts bringing her the valuables of everyone in the neighborhood. Birch is a natural young actress, while Keitel hams it up shamelessly (he reportedly made the film to amuse his young daughter). --Marshall Fine
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Little Eva Gregory (Thora Birch) longs for a pet she can call her own. But her mother, preoccupied with caring for a toddler, thinks Eva's too young to take full responsibility for an animal. To make matters worse, Eva's stepfather is allergic to fur. Luckily, Shorty Kohn (Harvey Keitel) happens along: Kohn's a boardwalk con-artist with a smart Capuchin monkey named Finster. Together Finster and Kohn have been scamming folks on the Venice, California boardwalk for a long time. But Finster has had quite enough of Shorty's abuse. So the talented creature runs away, and in a local park, encounters the little girl. Soon, Eva has smuggled him into her life. But it won't be easy to keep her parents from finding out what she's up to... especially with Finster stealing everything in sight.
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He's Cute. He's Cuddly. He's A Klepto.
Are you ready for the cutest criminal pet of all time? He's Dodger, and although he's tiny, he manages to get into more trouble than a whole barrel full of… monkeys!
Dodger belongs to a crooked street performer (Harvey Keitel, The Piano) but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva (Thora Birch of Dungeons and Dragons and Now and Then), an innocent little girl whose mother (Mimi Rogers, Lost in Space) has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive. Unfortunately, Dodger's naught habits get the best of him as his mischief plunges everyone he meets into major Monkey Trouble!
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