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Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 US independent black comedy written and directed by David O. Russell. The title of the movie is a slang phrase for masturbation by either sex.

The song "In Spite of Me", from Morphine's album Cure for Pain, plays over the end credits.

It won the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.

Plot

Susan Aibelli (Alberta Watson), a married, lonely woman, suffers a leg injury at home just as her husband is about to leave on his job as a travelling salesperson and her son, Tom (Jeremy Davies), is about to leave for the summer on a medical internship. Her son is forced to stay at home to take care of her as his father is gone. He loses the internship and also his girlfriend. These troublesome events leave him emotionally confused as he and his mother are left alone together and they develop an apparent incestuous relationship.

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