Born to Be Wild

Mar 31, 1995

1h 40m

★ 5.3

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Outlaw Productions

Born to Be Wild Trailers

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Cast

Rick Heller

Wil Horneff

Margaret Heller

Helen Shaver

Max Carr

John C. McGinley

Lacey Carr

Jean Marie Barnwell

Gus Charnley

Peter Boyle

Katie The Gorilla

Leif Tilden

Walter Mallinson

Gregory Itzin

Sergeant Bo Markle

Titus Welliver

Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)

Thomas F. Wilson

Bob the Paramedic

Marvin J. McIntyre

Dan Woodley

Alan Ruck

Judge Billings

Janet Carroll

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