History Film / Buddy

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Trudy.

* BrokenAesop: The message about the dangers of keeping wild animals as pets is broken because the two pet chimps, who unlike Buddy get to stay, are portrayed as peaceful. In reality, chimps are actually more destructive than gorillas despite being smaller and weaker.

Trudy is a [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense millionaire that lavishes her wealth on her pets like they're her children]]. She has an entire family of chimpanzees, dogs, cats, exotic birds, and other creatures. One afternoon while visiting the zoo she comes across an orphaned baby gorilla named "Buddy", just arrived from Africa. Feeling pity for the baby, she takes him with her, and from then on raises Buddy to be her surrogate son that she totes around the city. Buddy grows to hate the confines of the mansion and of the strict rules of human interaction and becomes a dangerously hard to control adult gorilla.

* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Sure, it seemed to be the right thing to adopt an orphaned gorilla that would have died without his mother's love and protection-but Trudy ended up creating a emotionally distressed gorilla that destroys her house.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on the life of Gertrude Lintz, adapted from her 1942 autobiography ''Animals Are My Hobby''. The film's Buddy is actually a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of two gorillas she kept, Buddy and Massa. Contrary to the film, it was Massa who was sold to the Philadelphia Zoo and lived to fifty-four. Buddy was sold to the Ringling Bros. Circus, where he was renamed "Gargantua" and died at the age of twenty.

Trudy is a [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense millionaire that lavishes her wealth on her pets like they're her children]]. She has an entire family of chimpanzees, dogs, cats, exotic birds, and other creatures. One afternoon while visiting the zoo she comes across an orphaned baby gorilla named "Buddy", just arrived from Africa. Feeling pity for the baby, she takes him with her, from then on raises Buddy to be her surrogate son that she totes around the city. Buddy grows to hate the confines of the mansion and of the strict rules of human interaction and becomes a dangerously hard to control adult gorilla.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Trudy

* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Sure, it seemed to be the right thing to adopt an orphaned gorilla that would have died without his mother's love and protection- but Trudy ended up creating a emotionally distressed gorilla that destroys her house.
* NaiveAnimalLover: Trudy has the best intentions for Buddy, but is in denial that he could possibly hurt her or anybody.

* CharacterNarrator: The film is narrated by Trudy

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Based on the life of Gertrude Lintz, adapted from her 1942 autobiography ''Animals Are My Hobby''. The film's Buddy is actually a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of two gorillas she kept, Buddy and Massa. Contrary to the film, it was Massa who was sold to the Philadelphia Zoo and lived to fifty-four. Buddy was sold to the Ringling Bros. Circus, where he was renamed "Gargantua."

* TheRoaringTwenties

''Buddy'' is a 1997 film produced by Columbia pictures with the help of the Jim Henson studio.

Trudy is a [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense millionaire that spends her money on lavishing her wealth on her pets like they're her children]]. She has an entire family of chimpanzees, dogs, cats, exotic birds, and other creatures. One afternoon while visiting the zoo she comes across an orphaned baby gorilla named "Buddy", just arrived from Africa. Feeling pity for the baby, she takes him with her, from then on raises Buddy to be her surrogate son that she totes around the city. Buddy grows to hate the confines of the mansion and of the strict rules of human interaction and becomes a dangerously hard to control adult gorilla.