Film · Drama, Family
Born to Be Wild (1995)
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.
- Director
- John Gray
- Writers
- John Bunzel, Paul Young
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 31, 1995
Cast
Wil HorneffRick Heller
Helen ShaverMargaret Heller
John C. McGinleyMax Carr- Jean Marie BarnwellLacey Carr
Peter BoyleGus Charnley
Leif TildenKatie The Gorilla
Gregory ItzinWalter Mallinson
Titus WelliverSergeant Bo Markle
Thomas F. WilsonDet. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)- Marvin J. McIntyreBob the Paramedic
Alan RuckDan Woodley
Janet CarrollJudge Billings
John ProcaccinoEd Price
Obba BabatundéInterpreter- David WingertGary James
John PleshetteDonald Carr
