06 Oct 2000
Requiem for a Dream
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Born to Be Wild
What do you do when your best friend's a 400-pound gorilla? Anything she likes.
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
Top Billed Cast
Wil Horneff Rick Heller
John C. McGinley Max Carr
Jean Marie Barnwell Lacey Carr
Peter Boyle Gus Charnley
Leif Tilden Katie The Gorilla
Gregory Itzin Walter Mallinson
Titus Welliver Sergeant Bo Markle
Thomas F. Wilson Det. Lou Greenberg (as Tom Wilson)
Marvin J. McIntyre Bob the Paramedic
Alan Ruck Dan Woodley
Janet Carroll Judge Billings
John Procaccino Ed Price
Obba Babatundé Interpreter
David Wingert Gary James
John Pleshette Donald Carr
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