Born to Be Wild (1995)
What do you do when your best friend's a 400-pound gorilla? Anything she likes.
100 min
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.
- Release date
- March 31, 1995
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Wil Horneff as Rick Heller
- Helen Shaver as Margaret Heller
- Jean Marie Barnwell as Lacey Carr
- John C. McGinley as Uncle Max Carr
- Marvin J. McIntyre as Bob the Paramedic
- Peter Boyle as Gus Charnley
- Gregory Itzin as Walter Mallinson
- Titus Welliver as Sergeant Bo Markle
- Tom Wilson as Det. Lou Greenberg
- Alan Ruck as Atty. Dan Woodley
Crew
- John Gray · Director
- Paul Young · Writer
- John Bunzel · Writer
- Jeffrey Silver · Producer
- Green Jellÿ · Composer
- Mark Snow · Composer
- Donald M. Morgan · Cinematographer
- Maryann Brandon · Editor
- Debi Manwiller · Casting director
- Roy Forge Smith · Production designer