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'Buddy'
"Buddy," the story of a gorilla that’s raised like a human child until it growls out of house and home, is a period story based on the true-life experiences of Gertrude "Trudy" Lintz (Rene Russo), a socialite-cum-Dr.-Doolittle of the 1920s who kept scores of animals on her New York estate.
When Lintz encounters an ailing baby gorilla at the Philadelphia Zoo, she takes him home to her merry menagerie. She nurses the baby (whom she calls Buddy) back to health and watches him grow, which he does at an extraordinary rate. Buddy joins the household, which means bonding with, and learning from, Trudy’s four indoor chimps, who are clothed in the finest fashions, play croquet, ride horses and serve tea. As Buddy grows, his volatile nature becomes more apparent. -- Desson Howe
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