Born to Be Wild
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.
- Year: 1995
- Country: United States of America, Japan
- Genre: Drama, Family
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Outlaw Productions
- Keyword: gorilla, sign languages
- Director: John Gray
- Cast: Wil Horneff, Helen Shaver, John C. McGinley, Jean Marie Barnwell, Peter Boyle, Gregory Itzin