Movie1988 · Released · 129 min
Occupational therapist Dian Fossey (Weaver) is inspired by anthropologist Louis Leakey (Iain Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. She writes ceaselessly to Leakey for a job cataloguing and studying the rare mountain gorillas of Africa. Following him to a lecture in Louisville, Kentucky in 1966, she convinces him of her conviction.
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Sigourney Weaver
Dian Fossey
Bryan Brown
Bob Campbell
Julie Harris
Roz Carr
John Omirah Miluwi
Sembagare
Iain Cuthbertson
Dr. Louis Leakey
Konstantin Aleksandrov
Claude Van Veeten
Waigwa Wachira
Mukara
Iain Glen
Brendan
David Lansbury
Larry
Maggie O'Neill
Kim
Konga Mbandu
Rushemba
Michael J. Reynolds
Howard Dowd
Gordon Masten
Photographer
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