Project X (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Produced by |
Walter F. Parkes Lawrence Lasker |
| Written by | Lawrence Lasker Stanley Weiser |
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| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Edited by | O. Nicholas Brown Brent A. Schoenfeld |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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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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