Born to Be Wild (1995)
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.
- Released
- 1995-03-31
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- John Gray, Paul Young, John Bunzel
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 from 45 votes
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