Project X

Project X (1987) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt. Air Force enlistee Jimmy Garrett is assigned to look after chimpanzees trained on flight simulators. Unusual posting, but nothing alarming on the surface.

Then Jimmy works out what the classified tests are actually measuring. The chimps are being exposed to lethal radiation levels, and no one above him intends to change that. Researcher Teri (Hunt), who taught the lead chimp sign language, becomes his partner in trying to stop it. The film pulls off the combination of military satire and genuine emotional stakes around a non-human character — something most similar pictures get wrong. Watch Project X (1987) online on iFILM.