UnderGround Thursday Patreon Film Screening

The Shawna Foundation Presents UnderGround Thursday in February with The Marx Brothers MONKEY BUSINESS (1931) 
 

This month’s UnderGround Thursday screening dives headfirst into anarchic comedy with Monkey Business (1931) directed by Norman Z. McLeod. A film so chaotic that the Marx Brothers themselves reportedly feared it would fail—and even considered buying it back. Instead, it became a massive hit, unleashing a blistering satire of authority, borders, bureaucracy, and social pretension that feels startlingly modern. Set largely aboard an ocean liner and spiraling into the criminal underworld, the film gleefully dismantles rules, logic, and respectability, revealing power as performance and nonsense as truth. Nearly a century later, Monkey Business still lands as both riotous entertainment and absurdly sharp commentary on a world that often makes no sense at all.

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