Buddy
Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director/Writer: | Caroline Thompson |
| Director of Photography: | Steve Mason |
| Editor: | Jonathan Shaw |
| Music: | Elmer Bernstein |
| Production Designers: | David Nichols and Daniel Lomino |
| Producers: | Steve Nicholaides and Fred Fuchs |
| Jim Henson Pictures and Columbia; PG; 84 minutes | |
| Release: | 6/97 |
| Cast: | Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Peter Elliott, Alan Cumming, Paul Reubens and Irma T. Hall |
| Based on the book Animals Are My Hobby by Gertrude Davies Lintz |
An odd career move for Russo, who has until now shown discretion when choosing roles and leading men. Real-life Brooklyn socialite Gertrude “Trudy” Lintz turns her elegant apartment into a zoo, housing a sizable menagerie. The apple of her eye is Buddy, a gorilla she adopts as a sick infant. She dresses him in custom threads from Bergdorf Goodman and nurtures him as a son. But Trudy has to rethink Buddy as a domestic pet when she takes him to the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago and he acts, well, like a gorilla. A bland film that never explains Trudy's peculiar lifestyle.
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