Project Nim

Project Nim (2011)

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

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.

Date of release
2011-07-08
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (146)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Documentary
Director
James Marsh

Casting

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

Recommended