How does Project X end?

In the final act ("Flight to Freedom"): Jimmy and Teri attempt to steal a plane but are detained by military police. Virgil pilots the aircraft to the Everglades, where Teri signs their liberation before they vanish into the wild.

Project X (1987) — AI Story Visualization

Name: Project X
Genre: comedy, drama, science-fiction
Released: 1987
Rating: 6.3

Plot Analysis Summary

A scientist and an airman team up to expose a lethal military experiment and secure freedom for a gifted chimpanzee.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Lethal Assignment

Confrontation and Chaos

Reactor Crisis and Sacrifice

Flight to Freedom

A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.

Directed by

Jonathan Kaplan

Key Cast

Matthew Broderick — Jimmy
Helen Hunt — Teri
William Sadler — Dr. Carroll
Willie — Virgil
Jonathan Stark — Sergeant Krieger

Rating: 6.3/10 (281 votes)