A Summer to Remember is a 1985 American family television drama film written and directed by Robert Michael Lewis and starring James Farentino, Tess Harper and Louise Fletcher.

[1][2][3] Two young children find an orangutan living in their treehouse.

The parents take the kids to see a circus and there is a sick gorilla there called "Mad Max" who is really poorly.

Then there is an Orangutan and a gorilla on the loose followed by the owners and police with guns and veterinarians.

Max is shot with sleeping drugs and gets the help that he needed, and Kacey goes back to her owners and Toby regains his speech.