MVP: Most Valuable Primate

MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)

Jack skates a little faster... Shoots a little harder... And is driving everyone bananas.

Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. Jack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's junior league hockey team, and he and his teammates discover the monkey has a natural talent for the game.

Date of release
2000-08-11
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (98)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Family
Director
Robert Vince
Collection
MVP Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $1.2M
  • Budget: $4.5M
  • Earned 0.3× its budget

MVP: Most Valuable Primate is a 2000 comedy film that sparked the MVP trilogy. The film is about a chimpanzee, Jack, who plays hockey.

Development

The film was originally produced by Keystone with Walt Disney Pictures, but Disney left the project after deeming the film as "strictly for the vid shelf".

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