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About
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.
Theatrical
Mar 31, 1995
DVD / Blu-ray
Jul 8, 2003
Director
Writer
Paul Young
Producers
Jeffrey Silver, Jennifer Graham Billings, Susan E. Novick
Music
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures, Outlaw Productions
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Cast
Full credits →W
Wil Horneff
Rick Heller
H
Helen Shaver
Margaret Heller
J
John C. McGinley
Max Carr
J
Jean Marie Barnwell
Lacey Carr
P
Peter Boyle
Gus Charnley
L
Leif Tilden
Katie The Gorilla
G
Gregory Itzin
Walter Mallinson
Titus Welliver
Sergeant Bo Markle
T
Thomas F. Wilson
Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
M
Marvin J. McIntyre
Bob the Paramedic
A
Alan Ruck
Dan Woodley
J
Janet Carroll
Judge Billings
J
John Procaccino
Ed Price
O
Obba Babatundé
Interpreter
J
John Pleshette
Donald Carr
