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Writers (WGA):
Gertrude Davies Lintz (book)
William Joyce (screen story) ...
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Release Date:
6 June 1997 (USA) more
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Welcome to a family that will make yours seem tame.
Plot:
Rene Russo plays an eccentric socialite who raises a gorilla as her son. full summary | add synopsis
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(6 articles)
Sony At Acme
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 2 September 1997)
Farewell To Family Films?
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 22 July 1997)
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How hollywood got the story of my Great Aunt quite wrong on film more (21 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Rene Russo | ... | Mrs. Gertrude 'Trudy' Lintz |
 | Robbie Coltrane | ... | Dr. Bill Lintz |
 | Alan Cumming | ... | Dick Croner, Trudy's Assistant |
 | Irma P. Hall | ... | Emma, Lintz's Maid |
 | Peter Elliott | ... | Buddy |
 | Mak Wilson | ... | Buddy |
 | Lynn Robertson Bruce | ... | Buddy |
| Mark Sealey | ... | Buddy |
| Robert Tygner | ... | Buddy (as Rob Tygner) |
| Michelan Sisti | ... | Buddy |
| Peter Hurst | ... | Buddy |
| Leif Tilden | ... | Buddy |
| Star Townsend | ... | Buddy (as Star Townshend) |
 | Paul Reubens | ... | Professor Spatz |
 | John Aylward | ... | Mr. Joe Bowman |
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Rated PG for some threatening animal action.
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84 min | Argentina:90 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:L | Australia:G (TV rating) | Australia:PG (original rating) | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | France:U | Germany:6 | Portugal:M/6 (video premiere) | Sweden:7 | UK:U (video premiere) | USA:PG (certificate #34791)
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Los Angeles Zoo, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Rene Russo came out a month before principal photography started to work to rehearse with each individual chimp. more
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Emma: It's enough to drive you to the nut house. Of course this place probably already is the nut house. more
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My Aunt Gertrude did own a gorilla named Buddy, but she also owned another named Massa, and they combined the lives of the 2 together.
First let me give you the true ending, Buddy was sold to the Ringling Bros circus, his name was changed to Gargantua, Massa was sold to the Philedelphia Zoo, and lived to be the oldest living Gorilla in captivity.
The story was hollywoodized to the extreme. If they had stuck to the facts, maybe it would have been better.
Gertrude also raised prize winning Saint Bernards, having over 100 on her estate in Brooklyn. She won the Westminster Dog show blue ribbon 5 times in a row. She helped to develop the "modern" pet foods. Since before then people just fed their pets scraps.
Also just one more minor note, my family is Jewish, yet in the movie, she wore a cross, and as far as I know, no-body in my family was paid or had given permission for the movie to come out.