Buddy
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Caroline Thompson
Rene Russo
Robbie Coltrane
Alan Cumming
Irma P. Hall
Rob Tygner
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The true story of Gertrude "Trudy" Lintz, an eccentric socialite in the 1920s likened to a modern-day Noah. On her New York estate, she, her physician husband Bill and her assistant Dick care for a menagerie as extensive as a zoo's. Adding to the fun are her four chimpanzees whom she treats as her children; their clothes are tailor-made at Bergdorf Goodman; she teaches them table manners, how to mix martinis, do light housework and say their prayers. And they become the stars of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. But her gorilla, Buddy is her favorite child. When she first sees him, he is a sickly baby gorilla. But she opens her home and her heart to him, and proceeds to raise him as if he were her own... and, for a time, he is. Still, Buddy inevitably grows up, and keeping him becomes increasingly dangerous for Trudy because he can't fit into the human world he lives in, anymore, and yet can't be his true self either. Finally, Trudy has to make the decision all mothers face--she has to let him go.
Director
Caroline Thompson
Cast
Rene Russo
Robbie Coltrane
Alan Cumming
Irma P. Hall
Rob Tygner
Kathleen Klein
Michelan Sisti
Dane Cook
Kyle Galyean
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Paul Reubens
John Aylward
Frank Welker
Al Weber
Bradley Jay Lesley
Jon Simmons
Leif Tilden
Julianna Wheeler
John Ennis
Gary Hecker
Peter Elliot
Mark Sealey
R Scott Doran
Mimi Kennedy
Michael Reid Mackay
Russell Young
Peter Hurst
Mak Wilson
Frank Collison
Lynn Robertson Bruce
Star Townshend
Hector Gika
Jeff Hatz
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Philip B. Hall
Crew
Michael Alexander
Stacy Alexander
Stephanie Allain
Doug Allen
Willy Allen
David Bruce Allsberry
Christine Altomari
Marion Appleton
J H Arrufat
Astrig Askeralian
Colleen Atwood
Rick Avery
Philip Babbage
Wenden K Baldwin
Peter Bankins
Denise Baseley
Elmer Bernstein
Emilie A Bernstein
David Betancourt
Chris Blackwood
Deborah 'cha' Blevins
Nigel Booth
Destiny Borden
Kareen Boursier
Steve Bowerman
Jesse Don Brackenbury
Diana Bradshaw
Ursula Brauner
Sam Broadbent
Otie Brown
Dan Burnett
Thom Calderon
Patricia Carlin
Michael Chavez
Lisa Citron
Simon Clutterbuck
Mel Coleman
Pete Coogan
Francis Ford Coppola
Rosario Coppola
Christy Cotton
Monty Cox
Richard Darwin
Laura Dash
Carole Dejong
Nancy Deren
Walter Donaldson
Richard Duran
Kathy Durning
Lynne Eagan
Robert Eber
Peter Elliott
Robin Ellis
Ronald Eng
Cindy Evans
Marta Evry
Ed Fassl
Thomas Fichter
Dawn Fintor
Chris Fitzgerald
Barry Fowler
Rick Franklin
Carrie Frazier
Fred Fuchs
Debbie George
Cara Giallanza
Daria Gibson
Hector Gika
Dan Gilroy
Jeremy Gordon
Giselle Grant
Keith Grant
Jane E. Graves
Jeffrey Greeley
Karen Griffiths
Virginia G Hadfield
Shawna Hamann
Tarnzine Hanks
Mark Harden
Paul Harrison
Alix Harwood
Craig Hayes
Brian Henson
Robert Herron
Graham High
Andrea Hochgatterer-rowland
Dave Housman
Chris Howes
Jeremy Hunt
Robert Hunter
Barry Idoine
Mauriece Jacks Jr.
Jamie Jackson-moore
Chris Jenkins
Derek Johansen
Todd A Johnson
Thomas R Johnston
Roxanne Jones Mccarthy
Louisa Jordan
Tim Jordan
William Joyce
William Joyce
Gus Kahn
Dave Kelly
Christiane-carolin Koch
Erwin H Kupitz
Leon Laderach
Shannon Lail
Mark H. Lee
Cynthia Lejeune
John Lenkin
Deidre Leonard
Steven David Levine
Gertrude Davies Lintz
Alberto Lombardo
Daniel Lomino
Jim Machin
Julian Manning
Ivan Manzella
Steve Mason
Chris Moseley
Dan Muscarella
Boone Narr
Robin L Neal
Larry Nicholas
David Nichols
Aaron Nicolaides
Steven Nicolaides
Steven Nicolaides
Dayton Nietert
Jacki Noble
Dean O'brien
Valerie O'brien
Donna O'neal
Nicola O'toole
Brad Orrison
Adrian Parish
Kevin Patterson
Dale Allan Pelton
Scott A Perez
Dennis K Petersen
Rex Peterson
Rex Peterson
Bre Pettis
Jenny Phelps
Katherine Philipp
Ron Pipes
Dan Plum
Bill Pollock
Jim Pratt
Liz Ragland
Courtney Rains
Brad Rea
Michael Reinhart
Micky Ricci
Royal Riedinger
Kathleen Roll
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Roland Rosenkranz
Zade Rosenthal
George Marshall Ruge
William V Ryder
Lynn Salvatori
Denise Sanders
Kent Victor Schuelke
Myke Schwartz
Dennis R. Scott
Raymond Scott
Elisabeth Seldes
Hal Selig
Stewart Sewell
Jonathan P Shaw
Terry Sibley
Robin Sierra Jorden
Clare Smith
Mark Smith
Linda Spheeris
Christine Sterritt
Guy Stevens
Alicia M Stevenson
Vicky Stockwell
Monty Stuart
Patrick L. Sullivan
Neil Summers
Victor Svimonoff
Nicola Tedman
Vickie Thomas
Caroline Thompson
Caroline Thompson
Eric Thompson
Steven Ticknor
Michael Vendrell
Tony Villalobos
Victoria M Vopni
Maggie Vosper
Peter Wagner
Jeni Walker
Lesley Ann Ward
Michael Ward
Carole A Wattles
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video January 13, 1998
Released in United States Summer June 6, 1997
Began shooting August 26, 1996.
Completed shooting November 11, 1996.
Released in United States on Video January 13, 1998
Released in United States Summer June 6, 1997