Drama PG Running time: 2:17
IMDB rating: 6.3 Aspect: Wide; Languages: English; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; Audio: DD 5.1
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization. Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire, I Dreamed of Africa) directed his lavish adaptation highlighting the character's dual nature as a master of the African jungle and as John Clayton, seventh Earl of Greystoke, heir to one of Scotland's great estates. Christopher Lambert (the title role), Andie MacDowell (her movie debut) and Sir Ralph Richardson (one of his final performances) star in a "ravishing, magical epic" (Guy Flatley, Cosmopolitan).
