Monkeybone2001

He blinked. “You left it once.”

Before Coraline and Kubo , Henry Selick co-directed this bizarre hybrid of live-action and stop-motion—a movie that feels like Beetlejuice on a sugar rush mixed with The Twilight Zone . monkeybone2001

Upon release in February 2001, Monkeybone was a catastrophic bomb. It grossed just $7.6 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. The keyword is often coupled with the word "flop." He blinked

: The story follows Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser), a repressed cartoonist who falls into a coma and wakes up in "Down Town," a purgatory-like waystation for lost souls. It grossed just $7

Finally he found a letter, sealed in a cafeteria cookbook, written in a careful hand, dated the year she left: I had to go. Don’t try to find me. It hurt in the way a cold should. There were no accusations, only the quiet exhaustion of someone burned out by expectation.