Movie
Project Nim
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
20111h 33m★ 6.9Documentary
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.
Director
- James Marsh
Producers
- Simon Chinn
- John Battsek · Executive Producer
- Andrew Ruhemann · Executive Producer
- Jamie Laurenson · Executive Producer
- Nick Fraser · Executive Producer
Where to watch
Region: US · via JustWatch / TMDB
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Top cast
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
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Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
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Stephanie LaFarge
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Herbert Terrace
Self
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Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
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Jenny Lee
Self
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Laura-Ann Petitto
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Bill Tynan
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Joyce Butler
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Renne Falitz
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