Drama

Gigi & Nate

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A young man's life is turned upside down becoming quadriplegic. Moving forward seems near impossible until he meets his unlikely service animal, Gigi - a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey.

Year

2022

Duration

1h 54m

IMDb

6.7

Trailer

Cast

Nick Hamm

Director

Charlie Rowe

Nate Gibson

AT

Allie the Monkey

Gigi

Marcia Gay Harden

Claire Gibson

Maria Howell

Chairman Filling

Hannah Riley

Annabelle Gibson

Mishel Prada

Carolyn Albion

BN

Brian Nguyen

Jay Park

Brent Sexton

Sgt. Ellis

J.Stephen Brantley

Dwayne Greeter

Theo Hamm

Leonard

Sean Hankinson

Dr. Patidar

Kathleen Littlefield

Rental Car Clerk

RT

Robert Traveiler

Dr. Clark

AB

Annette B. Gill

Elderly Woman

RB

Richard Barnes

Elderly Man

Stephen West-Rogers

Reporter at Grocery Store

Jim Belushi

Dan Gibson

Tara Summers

Martha Greeter

David Hudgins

Writer

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Comments

10 comments

Nadan MarwatJun 21, 2026

sck

Parames ParamesApr 25, 2026

a beautiful movie...

user7800288908923May 29, 2025

HamzaMay 29, 2025

AlexiaMay 29, 2025

SAHIN VAiApr 14, 2025

good

chukwuezesamuelDec 29, 2024

KamleshOct 15, 2024

This is a sweet story of how a capuchin monkey, called Gigi, helps a young man, called Nate, after he becomes paralysed and needs to use a wheelchair. He experiences a lot of physical pain, especially during physiotherapy. Gigi helps him cope with the pain and also assists him, so he is able to enjoy life again. I don't know how accurately this film portrayed how a service monkey can assist and it seemed very one sided, portraying animal right activists as nasty people. In general, I do agree that wild animals should not be kept as pets or used as service animals. In this story the monkey was rescued from a 'zoo' then trained as a service animal. People who have a service dog keep it on a leash in public, so Nate was irresponsible not having Gigi tethered.

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Deedee Joyce RakoroMJan 30, 2024

Some say this movie is based on a real young man and his helper monkey. I prefer the term "inspired by" because so much of the story is changed for this movie. The one constant is that the young man was accidentally paralyzed and an organization that trains service animals provided a capuchin helper monkey. In this movie she is named Gigi. But names, family dynamics, locations, and method of paralysis are all fictional, as are most of the interactions portrayed. But none of that matters in appreciating the movie. It deals authentically with a real subject and the difficulties of a partially incapicated person. Including military veterans, some featured in the movie, who were wounded, many with missing limbs. Also the last parts of the movie, depicting the protests and the hearings to see if legislation will be advanced to prohibit use of monkeys as service animals. Today the organization, Helping Hands, no longer trains capuchin monkeys mainly due to pressure from animal rights groups, as well as concerns over health and safety. These factors resulted in federal and state governments changing the laws to make it difficult or impossible to have a monkey as a service animal. In 2010, a revision to the Americans with Disabilities Act stripped capuchin monkeys of their status as service animals. My wife and I enjoyed this movie at home on BluRay from our public library.