The Willis has come up for me earlier in this thread (whoa - pages ago), but I noticed that it was posted, then gone. It was the {**holy %^%^** big connective thought here} giraffe in NYC. The film was 12 Monkeys (1995).
The giraffe thing is recurrent for me now because of its forced sex symbolism with child sexual abuse on the 'over there' thread. It's a facet of the programming and training.
In the film, the zoo animals are running free in the city. And so the giraffe...
Synopsis: The film depicts a future world in 2035 devastated by disease, forcing the human population to live underground. Convict James Cole (Willis) "volunteers" for time travel duty to gather information in exchange for prison release. When he first arrives in the past, Cole is arrested and locked up in a psychiatric hospital, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe), a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines (Pitt), the insane son of a scientist and virus expert.