Project X is a 1987 film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The film makes a political commentary on the ethics of animal research.
The screenplay's premise has a fictional air force soldier named Jimmy (played by Matthew Broderick) who, as punishment for "misconduct" involving a romantic interlude in an aircraft cockpit, assigned to a top-secret military project wherein chimpanzees are trained on vi...
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Project X is a 1987 film produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The film makes a political commentary on the ethics of animal research.
The screenplay's premise has a fictional air force soldier named Jimmy (played by Matthew Broderick) who, as punishment for "misconduct" involving a romantic interlude in an aircraft cockpit, assigned to a top-secret military project wherein chimpanzees are trained on virtual reality flight simulators, and experiences a crisis of conscience as to the project goals.
The film begins with graduate student Teri Macdonald (played by Helen Hunt) and her work to learn about and train in the use of American Sign Language a chimpanzee named "Virgil." When her research grant is not renewed, Virgil is taken away. Teri is told, and believes, the chimp is to be sent to a zoo that will take care of him. Instead, Virgil is taken to a military reservation to be used in a peculiar research project involving platforms designed...
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