Project Nim (2011)

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

Movie · Documentary · 1h 33m · Rated 6.9/10 on TMDB · Released July 8, 2011

Overview

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.

Directed by James Marsh

Cast

• Bob Angelini as Lab Tech
• Bern Cohen as Dr. William Lemmon
• Reagan Leonard as Stephanie LaFarge
• Nim Chimpsky as Self (archive footage)
• Stephanie LaFarge as Self
• Herbert Terrace as Self
• Wer LaFarge as Self (archive footage)
• Jenny Lee as Self
• Laura-Ann Petitto as Self
• Bill Tynan as Self
• Joyce Butler as Self
• Renne Falitz as Self

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