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Born to Be Wild

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

1995★ 5.4 · 441h 40mDramaFamily

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.

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Cast

Titus Welliver
as Sergeant Bo Markle

Alan Ruck
as Dan Woodley

Peter Boyle
as Gus Charnley

John C. McGinley
as Max Carr

Thomas F. Wilson
as Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)

Helen Shaver
as Margaret Heller

Gregory Itzin
as Walter Mallinson

Obba Babatundé
as Interpreter

John Pleshette
as Donald Carr

Janet Carroll
as Judge Billings

Marvin J. McIntyre
as Bob the Paramedic

Wil Horneff
as Rick Heller

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Release date: 1995-03-31

Runtime: 1h 40m

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DramaFamily

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