Project X

This adventure/comedy film with an animals' rights theme concerns a graduate student who teaches sign Language to chimpanzees and a bumbling pilot-turned-animal trainer assigned to a top-secret Air Force project (dubbed Project X). Jimmy Garrett is to teach Virgil the chimpanzee how to operate a flight simulator, but later learns that the test animals are subjected to high levels of radiation in order to give the Air Force an idea of how long a pilot can fly after a nuclear blast. Jimmy, Virgil and the chimp's former teacher, Teri McDonald, combine forces to outwit the military. (Circulates)
Genre/FormFeature films.

Airman Jimmy Garrett (Matthew Broderick) is assigned to the same chimp project; he begins to bond with Virgil and they become attached. Jimmy discovers that Virgil has been taught sign language. The chimps trained on the flight simulators will be killed by radiation poisoning. Jimmy and Teri steal a military plane to help the chimps escape, but they are stopped by military police.