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.
Ivan the gorilla and ruby the elephant.
With sam rockwell bryan cranston phillipa soo chaka khan.
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.
Read chaka khan who plays henrietta on the one and only ivan says they have lot in common a displeased ivan decides.
Ivan encourages ruby the elephant.
Directed by thea sharrock.
Ivan is very good at making friends with young people like julia his human best friend or ruby who saw from the start that he was not a scary gorilla and despite the little elephant stealing the show at the circus he had no problem with that even helping ruby overcome the crowd stalking.
The two of them were captured together as babies from the jungles of zaire in central africa.
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.
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.
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.
However things become difficult for ivan the gorilla when mack begins to train ruby to become a professional performer.
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.
On her death bed stella asks ivan to look after the young ruby.
Ivan ruby and the other animals are taken away to a zoo.
In 1994 ivan came to live at zoo.
Ivan has spent most of his life in captivity.
An easygoing gorilla who has lived in the big top mall and video arcade for 27 years.
Not all humans are bad.
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 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.