Buddy (1997)
51K Adventure Comedy Drama Genre Alan Cumming Caroline Thompson Frank Collison Gertrude Davies Lintz Irma P. Hall John Aylward Jon Simmons Kathleen Klein Leif Tilden Lynn Robertson Bruce Mak Wilson Mark Sealey Michelan Sisti Mimi Kennedy Paul Reubens Peter Elliott Peter Hurst Rene Russo Robbie Coltrane Robert Tygner Russell Young Star Townsend William Joyce 1997 4.2 Caroline Thompson English United States
Buddy: Directed by Caroline Thompson. With Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall. A depiction of the true life story of Gertrude Lintz, an eccentric 1920’s socialite who tries to raise a gorilla, like many chimps before him, as part of her family.
“Autobiography of founder of zoo in NYC starts out by being very cute and would be great family movie if it stayed there. however we get more and more involved with reality as gorilla grows up to be a wild thing not easily amenable to his u0026quot;motheru0026#39;su0026quot; wishes – this might scare younger children, esp. scenes where Buddy tries to injure Gertrude. rather quick resolution at the end. below average.”
