Buddy - Mein haariger Freund

Here's a film that asks if interspecies friendship can work, but only answers it in the most literal way possible. Set in the 1920s, a wealthy woman adopts a baby gorilla from Africa and raises him in her home. It's hard to fault a movie that earnestly tries to make a good ape movie.

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Caroline Thompson directed Buddy - Mein haariger Freund in 1997. See Caroline Thompson's full filmography, where to start with Caroline Thompson, or where to go after you've seen everything by Caroline Thompson.

Buddy - Mein haariger Freund was released in 1997 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 84 minutes.