Greystoke

The 1880s. Shipwrecked and marooned on the West African coast, little John Clayton, the seventh Earl of Greystoke, becomes the newest member of a simian community when Kala, a compassionate ape, becomes the boy's adoptive mother. Almost two decades later, the Belgian explorer, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot, member of a zoological expedition funded by the British Museum, crosses paths with a now-grown-up John, the smart lord of the apes, and before long, a profound bond develops between the two men. However, John's place is with his grandfather in the family's country estate in the Lowlands of Scotland. Can ape-like John come to terms with his human side and embrace his destiny as the Earl of Greystoke?