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Project X (1987 film)

Project X
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Produced by Walter F. Parkes
Lawrence Lasker
Written by Lawrence Lasker
Stanley Weiser
Starring
Music by James Horner
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by O. Nicholas Brown
Brent A. Schoenfeld
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • April 17, 1987 (1987-04-17)
Running time
108 minutes
Country United States
Language English
American Sign Language
Budget $18 million
Box office $21,589,395

Project X is a 1987 American science fiction-comedy-drama film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt. The plot revolves around a USAF Airman (Broderick) and a graduate student (Hunt) who are assigned to care for chimpanzees used in a secret Air Force project.

Graduate student Teri MacDonald (Helen Hunt) has trained a chimpanzee named Virgil to use American Sign Language. When her research grant is not renewed, she is forced to sell Virgil. Despite her being assured that Virgil will be sent to an animal sanctuary, instead he is taken to an Air Force base to be used in a top-secret research project involving platforms designed to simulate the operation of aircraft.

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. Jimmy informs his superior, Dr. Carroll (William Sadler), but Carroll is not interested.

Unbeknownst to Jimmy, the chimps trained on the flight simulators will be killed by radiation poisoning. Once they reach a certain level in operating the flight simulator, the chimps will be exposed to a lethal pulse of radiation in the simulator chamber to determine how long a pilot may survive after a nuclear exchange known as the second-strike scenario.


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