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Dec 24, 1976 · Watch Now. A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party. The Monkey Hustle is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video with Paramount+ add-on. You can buy or rent The Monkey Hustle for as low as $5.99 to rent or $19.99 to buy on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and iTunes.
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The Monkey Hustle is a 1976 comedy film about a Chicago neighborhood that fights back against a new highway project. The film stars Yaphet Kotto, Rudy Ray Moore, and Rosalind Cash, and is directed by Arthur Marks. If you love urban humor, social satire, and funky music, check out The Monkey Hustle on The Movie Database (TMDB).
Watch Monkey Hustle. PG. 1976. 1 hr 30 min. 5.2 (474) Monkey Hustle is a 1976 American crime drama movie that takes a deep dive into the African American community of Chicago's South Side. Directed by Arthur Marks, the movie features Yaphet Kotto as a shrewd small-time hustler and his relationship with a group of teenagers who are trying to ...
The Monkey Hustle When an interstate threatens to run through and demolish an established Black neighborhood, the community throws a block party in protest. With...
The film was not a success and the critics were largely unimpressed, although Roger Ebert, writing in The Chicago Sun Times, admitted The Monkey Hustle was at least a charming mess of a movie. Recalling the film in his 1995 book That's Blaxploitation , author Darius James was far less kind, fobbing the film off as "some lame nonsense."
