Project X is a top-secret government undertaking involving trained chimpanzees. Grounded pilot Matthew Broderick, assigned to teach the chimps how to operate a flight simulator, discovers that his charges are to be subjected to high levels of radiation to test potential human endurance. Risking a ...more
MPAA Rating: PG | Year: 1987 | Running Time: 107 minutes
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If you've ever cried during any animal movie, you'll want to keep a box of tissue handy for this sob-inducing drama. Matthew Broderick is an Air Force loose cannon reassigned to a secret project in which chimpanzees are taught to fly planes on simulators. Everything seems fine, and Broderick even makes friends with one, an adorable and intelligent ape named Virgil. Then he finds out that the chimps are only being trained so they can be zapped with fatal ionizing radiation as part of a study to ...more
- Matthew Broderick - Jimmy Garrett
- Helen Hunt - Teresa Teri McDonald, Psychologist
- Bill Sadler - Dr. Lynnard Carroll
- Johnny Ray McGhee - Isaac Robertson
- Jonathan Stark - Sgt. Kreig Kreiger
- Ward Costello - Price
- Robert Covarrubias - M.P. Rodriguez
- Shelly Desai - Mr. Verrous
- Raymond Elmendorf - Air Policeman
- Mady Kaplan - TV Announcer
- Sam Laws - Bartender
- Anne Lockhart
- Catherine Paolone - Miss Decker
- Deborah Offner - Carol Lee
- Jonathan Kaplan - Director
- C.O. Erickson - Executive Producer
- Walter Parkes - Producer
- Lawrence Lasker - Producer
- Stanley G. Weiser - Screenwriter
- Walter Parkes - Screenwriter
- Lawrence Lasker - Screenwriter
- Jackie Burch - Casting
- Mary Vogt - Costume Designer
- Albert M. Shapiro - First Assistant Director
- O. Nicholas Brown - Editor
- Brent Schoenfeld - Editor
- James Horner - Composer (Music Score)
- Peter Gabriel - Songwriter











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