Born to Be Wild
5.2
“What do you do when your best friend's a 400-pound gorilla? Anything she likes.”
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
16 people
Wil Horneff
Rick Heller
Known for
The Shining
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Helen Shaver
Margaret Heller
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Tremors 2: Aftershocks
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John C. McGinley
Max Carr
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Point Break
Scrubs
Jean Marie Barnwell
Lacey Carr
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Peter Boyle
Gus Charnley
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Taxi Driver
Young Frankenstein
Leif Tilden
Katie The Gorilla
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Gregory Itzin
Walter Mallinson
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24
Law Abiding Citizen
Titus Welliver
Sergeant Bo Markle
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Deadwood
Bosch
Thomas F. Wilson
Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
Known for
Back to the Future Part II
DreamWorks Dragons
Marvin J. McIntyre
Bob the Paramedic
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The Running Man
Short Circuit
Alan Ruck
Dan Woodley
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Succession
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Janet Carroll
Judge Billings
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Enough
John Gray Director · Paul Young Screenplay John Bunzel Screenplay
Worldwide gross $3.7M · United States release March 31, 1995 · Produced in United States, Japan
Box office
Worldwide gross
$3,730,409
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
Outlaw Productions
Production
United States · Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 31, 1995
Theatrical
Slovakia
March 31, 2001 · TV · Markíza
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