Ivan The Gorilla And Ruby The Elephant

Directed by thea sharrock.

Ivan the gorilla and ruby the elephant.

With sam rockwell bryan cranston phillipa soo chaka khan. Ivan ruby and the other animals are taken away to a zoo. Ruby brooklynn prince from the florida project is a baby elephant whose adorability threatens to the steal the spotlight from ivan but the jolie elephant stella brings out the simian. Ivan and ruby are both adopted by the same zoo where they begin adapting to their new habitats and the other animals they now live with.

Not all humans are bad. However things become difficult for ivan the gorilla when mack begins to train ruby to become a professional performer. Ivan has spent most of his life in captivity. This quote really sets the tone for disney s movie rendition of the one and only ivan the story of a silverback gorilla two elephants and some other animal friends who spent a good portion of their lives living in a shopping mall.

When pressed by baby elephant ruby ivan tells the story of his time in the wild and his capture in the one and only ivan. Speaking of which the driving force of the one and only ivan is the young elephant named ruby whom the star gorilla is determined to find a more suitable home for following her recent addition. In 1994 ivan came to live at zoo. The two of them were captured together as babies from the jungles of zaire in central africa.

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. 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. Read chaka khan who plays henrietta on the one and only ivan says they have lot in common a displeased ivan decides. Some of the details of this story are taken from real life for example ivan really did have a sister whose name was burma.

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. An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the big top mall and video arcade for 27 years. On her death bed stella asks ivan to look after the young ruby.