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Anne Lockhart, Bill Sadler, Daniel Roebuck, Harry, Harry Northup ...( see more  see more... ) , Helen Hunt , Jean Smart , Johnny Ray McGhee , Jonathan Stark , Karanja , Luke , Mark Harden , Matthew Broderick , Michael Eric Kramer , Okko , Reed R. McCants , Robin Gammell , Stephen Lang , Ward Costello , William Sadler , Willie

In this movie that harbors a message, young Air Force pilot Jimmy (Matthew Broderick) takes a shine to a young chimpanzee that's being used as the prime "guinea pig" for some top secret military exper...( read more  read more... )iments. Jimmy hooks up with empathetic primate expert Teri (Helen Hunt), and together the threesome makes a stand against the evil and abusive lab coats. Costars Anne Lockhart and William Sadler. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan.

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PG, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan

Release Date: April 17, 1987

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DVD Release Date: February 22, 2005

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  • Darksome
    July 12, 2009
    Darksome
    Pretty boring movie.
  • StaisilD
    November 17, 2008
    StaisilD
    After being found up in a plane with a girl and a bottle of champagne, trainee Air Force pilot Jimmy Garrett is demoted in disgrace and assigned to a research program run by the Strategic Weapons Division where he is given the job of training chimpanzees in the use of flight simu...( read more)lators. There he becomes attached to Virgil, one of the chimps, and comes to realize that Virgil can speak sign language. Investigating, he finds that Virgil was raised in a university animal behaviour program before its funding fell through. But then Jimmy discovers that the flight simulator training is being conducted in readiness for an experiment where the chimps are going to be subjected to lethal doses of radiation in order to see how long pilots can continue flying after passing through a nuclear blast. And so he joins with Virgil's trainer Teresa McDonald to save Virgil from his intended fate. The acting was pretty fine, but the monkeys were the stars, they were perfect.
  • crackingdanio
    February 4, 2008
    crackingdanio
    great friday night entertainment
  • thmtsang
    October 27, 2007
    thmtsang
    Sad movie about military medical experiment on monkeys. Stars a young Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt who try to rescue the animals.
  • u2acro
    July 25, 2007
    u2acro
    Oh, how this movie made me bawl! It was the first time that I realize animals were used in labs. It also jumpstarted my fear of monkeys.
  • DoctorXQuinzel
    June 27, 2009
    DoctorXQuinzel
    Save the monkeys! it was okay
  • ludie402000
    April 30, 2009
    ludie402000
    Rating for this movie is an A.
  • RobynMaher715
    April 2, 2009
    RobynMaher715
    OMF. THATS HELEN HUNT?! Jesus..
  • rnicholas57
    March 20, 2009
    rnicholas57
    great broderick movie
  • kpac
    January 17, 2009
    kpac
    If your bored, then see it.

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  • This great actress starred alongside Matthew Broderick in Project X, was the mother of the kid who paid it all forward, won an Oscar in a movie with Jack Nicholson and spent several years married to Paul Reiser in TV before wanting to chase tornadoes with Bill Paxton.  Answer »
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  • Matthew Broderick is a scientist who discovers that the intelligent ape he's training will be he subject of a lethal military experiment. Can he and the Chimp Escape? Also feature Helen Hunt. name the movie?  Answer »
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