Buddy

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