---
title: 'Project X (1987)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jonathan Kaplan'
released: '1987-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 108
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Science Fiction'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/project-x-1987'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093793/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Project X (1987)

1987 · PG · 108 min · Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

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) who is assigned to care for chimpanzees used in a secret Air Force project. He questions the ethics of the situation when he discovers one of them can communicate with sign language and subsequently learns they will not survive the tests. Hunt's character raised the chimpanzee and taught him sign language before her program funding was cut. She was promised he would be sent to a wildlife preserve, but, as Broderick's character finds out, that was a lie.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jonathan Kaplan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-kaplan)
- **Screenplay:** [Stanley Weiser](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-weiser)
- **Original Music Composer:** [James Horner](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-horner)
- **Producer:** [Lawrence Lasker](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-lasker), [Walter F. Parkes](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-f-parkes)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dean Cundey](https://cinepixo.com/people/dean-cundey)
- **Editor:** [O. Nicholas Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/o-nicholas-brown)

## Cast

- [Robin Gammell](https://cinepixo.com/people/robin-gammell)
- [David Raynr](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-raynr)
- [Richard Paul](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-paul)
- [Jonathan Stark](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-stark)
- [Harry Northup](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-northup)
- [Matthew Broderick](https://cinepixo.com/people/matthew-broderick)
- [William Sadler](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-sadler)
- [Stephen Lang](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-lang)
- [Pamela Ludwig](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamela-ludwig)
- [Daniel Roebuck](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-roebuck)
- [Helen Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-hunt)
- [Ken Lerner](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-lerner)
- [Dick Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-miller)

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