Ivan The Gorilla And Ruby The Elephant Movie

His owner mack purchased him when he was just a baby.

Ivan the gorilla and ruby the elephant movie. The movie is based on the award winning book written by katherine applegate which is based on a real life lowland gorilla named ivan. Ivan has spent most of his life in captivity. Ivan encourages ruby the elephant. An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the big top mall and video arcade for 27 years.

Directed by thea sharrock. For 27 years ivan lived in the shopping mall with his animal friends doing daily performances for human audiences. A gorilla named ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named ruby as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity. In 1994 ivan came to live at zoo.

Directed by allison shearmur the film is an adaptation of katherine applegate s book of the same name which itself is a largely fictionalized retelling of ivan s story told from the perspective of the animals. Read chaka khan who plays henrietta on the one and only ivan says they have lot in common a displeased ivan decides. Ivan was a western lowland gorilla born in 1962 in what is now the democratic republic of the congo he was captured from the wild as a baby and brought to live with humans. Ivan the western lowland gorilla was rescued from poachers in africa and raised by humans in washington where he spent 27 years as a shopping mall attraction.

For the first few years of his life he lived with his owners but he soon grew too big for a human house and they moved him to a 14 x 14 concrete enclosure on display to the public at the b i shopping center in tacoma. With sam rockwell bryan cranston phillipa soo chaka khan. Ivan ruby and the other animals are taken away to a zoo. However things become difficult for ivan the gorilla when mack begins to train ruby to become a professional performer.