Born to Be Wild (1995)

Name: Born to Be Wild
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: 1995-03-31
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley, Jean Marie Barnwell, Peter Boyle

What do you do when your best friend's a 400-pound gorilla? Anything she likes.

Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.

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Released 1995-03-31 · 100 min · Drama, Family

Directed by John Gray

Cast

Wil Horneff as Rick Heller
Helen Shaver as Margaret Heller
John C. McGinley as Max Carr
Jean Marie Barnwell as Lacey Carr
Peter Boyle as Gus Charnley
Leif Tilden as Katie The Gorilla
Gregory Itzin as Walter Mallinson
Titus Welliver as Sergeant Bo Markle
Thomas F. Wilson as Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
Marvin J. McIntyre as Bob the Paramedic
Alan Ruck as Dan Woodley
Janet Carroll as Judge Billings
John Procaccino as Ed Price
Obba Babatundé as Interpreter
David Wingert as Gary James