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Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, John Aylward

Based on the life of Gertrude Lintz, a Long Island socialite who kept an amazing menagerie of animals on her estate, this very able film by Caroline Thompson (Black Beauty) concentrates on Lint...( read more  read more... )z's relationship with a gorilla named Buddy, whom she raised from infancy on. The film is geared toward kids, but in the very best sense as Thompson orchestrates some very entertaining sequences without cutting corners on logic, the way most forms of children's entertainment do today. Rene Russo is very good as the eccentric woman, and Robbie Coltrane is uncharacteristically warm and fuzzy as her patient husband. Nice support work from Alan Cumming and the rest of the cast. Thompson is aiming for something akin to the live-action glory days of Disney, and she comes close to achieving it. --Tom Keogh

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PG, 84 min.

Directed by: Caroline Thompson

Release Date: June 6, 1997

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DVD Release Date: February 6, 2001

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  • BiologyBabe2012
    April 4, 2007
    BiologyBabe2012
    Sweet ... not all too bad. love Robbie Coltrane.
  • ileo
    December 21, 2007
    ileo
    Truly cute movie!
  • TioBradski
    January 1, 2009
    TioBradski
    How many ape-related movies has Paul Reubens been in, anyway? Sheesh.
  • xxxcli213xxx
    December 10, 2008
    xxxcli213xxx
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • gardenia54peach
    April 1, 2008
    gardenia54peach
    Great family movie...touching scenes between Rene Russo's character and the gorilla "Buddy" whom she took care from the time he was a baby until he became a full grown gorilla.
  • michelle101179
    January 10, 2008
    michelle101179
    not that good, but not that bad either.
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 17, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    Will have to watch this one. Not necassarily good or bad. Will see. Want to watch!
  • kamesan08
    August 15, 2007
    kamesan08
    I cannot imagine this in real life. (But the movie's real right?)

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