Summer of the Monkeys (1998)

Directors

Michael Anderson

Cast

Corey Sevier, Don Francks, Katie Stuart, Leslie Hope, Michael Ontkean, Wilford Brimley

The story

In the summer of 1910, a group of circus chimpanzees named Henri, Jacques, Antoinette and Dominique escape from a French circus due to a train wreck and end up in the Oklahoma river bottoms, where the main character, Jay Berry Lee lives with his family. Weeks later, 14-year-old Jay Berry Lee is fighting a bully named Toby on the last day of school when Jay steals Toby’s prized pocketknife. Their teacher Miss Freeman stops the fight, returning the pocketknife to Toby.

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