
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
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Wil Horneff as Rick Heller

Helen Shaver as Margaret Heller

John C. McGinley as Max Carr

Jean Marie Barnwell as Lacey Carr

Peter Boyle as Gus Charnley

Leif Tilden as Katie The Gorilla

Gregory Itzin as Walter Mallinson

Titus Welliver as Sergeant Bo Markle

Thomas F. Wilson as Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)

Marvin J. McIntyre as Bob the Paramedic

Alan Ruck as Dan Woodley

Janet Carroll as Judge Billings

John Procaccino as Ed Price

Obba Babatundé as Interpreter

David Wingert as Gary James

John Pleshette as Donald Carr
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