Born to Be Wild

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

Born to Be Wild — 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 adventurous journey to get her out of the country.

• Release date
• March 31, 1995
• Runtime
• 100 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family
• Director
• John Gray

Born to Be Wild — Cast

Wil Horneff Rick Heller Helen Shaver Margaret Heller John C. McGinley Max Carr

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Jean Marie Barnwell Lacey Carr Peter Boyle Gus Charnley Leif Tilden Katie The Gorilla Gregory Itzin Walter Mallinson Titus Welliver Sergeant Bo Markle