Born to Be Wild

IMDb link: 0113533
IMDb rating: 5.2 (1,821 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Director: Helen Shaver, John Gray
Cast: John C. McGinley, Wil Horneff, Jean Marie Barnwell and others

Release date: 31 Mar 1995
Release year: 1995
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: Japan, United States
Keywords: title based on song, mother son relationship, single mother, on the road, on the run, teen angst, gorilla, teenage boy, sign language, absent father

Plot:

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 adventureous journey to get her out of the country.

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