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Born to Be Wild is a 1995 American family comedy film released by Warner Bros. under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label.

This article is missing information about the film's production. (May 2016)

Born to Be Wild
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Gray
Screenplay by	John Bunzel Paul Young
Story by	Paul Young
Produced by	Robert Newmyer Jeffrey Silver
Starring	Wil Horneff Helen Shaver John C. McGinley Peter Boyle
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Edited by	Maryann Brandon
Music by	Mark Snow
Production companies	Fuji Entertainment Outlaw Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	March 31, 1995 (1995-03-31)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3,730,409[1]

Plot

Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who continues to get himself into trouble. To keep him out of mischief, his mother, Margaret, puts him to work cleaning the cage of a female western lowland gorilla named Katie. Margaret is teaching Katie to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla, Gus Charnley, takes her away to become a flea market freak, Rick realizes he loves Katie and goes to rescue her to take her on an adventurous journey that gets her out of the country. In the end Rick dies of his wounds but still found a home for Katie in the mountains and they say goodbye to each other and Katie makes a family of her own.

Cast

• Wil Horneff as Rick Heller
• Helen Shaver as Margaret Heller
• John C. McGinley as Max Carr
• Peter Boyle as Gus Charnley
• Jean Marie Barnwell as Lacey Carr
• Marvin J. McIntyre as Bob
• Gregory Itzin as Walter Mallinson
• Titus Welliver as Sergeant Markle
• Thomas F. Wilson as Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
• Alan Ruck as Dan Woodley
• John Procaccino as Ed Price
• Obba Babatundé as Interpreter
• David Wingert as Gary James
• John Pleshette as Donald Carr
• Janet Carroll as Judge Billings
• Talia Paul as Gorilla Team

Reception

Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle said the animatronic gorilla looked phony, but concluded "The film has its moments of nutty fun" and "it also has a couple of touching scenes—if you can get beyond that bogus ape look."[2] The Washington Post critic Rita Kempley called it "a heart-yanking family yarn that resembles a simian adaptation of Nell" and also compared the movie to Free Willy.[3]

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 0% based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 3.4/10.[4]

References

External links

• Born to Be Wild at AllMovie
• Born to Be Wild at IMDb
• Born to Be Wild at Rotten Tomatoes

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