Mighty Joe Young

A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton) and Jill Young (Charlize Theron), with whom he grew up. Poacher Strasser (Rade Serbedzija) returns from the past to seek vengeance on Joe.

Mighty Joe Young is a 1998 adventure thriller movie directed by Ron Underwood, starring Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, Peter Firth. It holds an IMDb rating of 5.7/10 from 32,611 votes and runs 1h 54m.