Project Nim (2011)

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

Directed by James Marsh1h 33mDocumentary

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.

Rated
PG-13
Year
2011
Country
GB
Language
English
Release date
8 July 2011
TMDB
6.9 (146)
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Bob Angelini
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
N
Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
S
Stephanie LaFarge
Self
H
Herbert Terrace
Self
W
Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
J
Jenny Lee
Self
L
Laura-Ann Petitto
Self
B
Bill Tynan
Self
J
Joyce Butler
Self
R
Renne Falitz
Self
B
Bob Ingersoll
Self
A
Alyce Moore
Self
J
James Mahoney
Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)
H
Henry Herrmann
Self
C
Cleveland Amory
Self (archive footage)
M
Marion Probst
Self
C
Chris Byrne
Self
A
Anna May Marsh
Signing Girl: re-enactment unit
S
Sarah Sakaan
Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit
D
Dennis Lauricella
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit
R
Robert Nesi
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)
Scarlett Bermingham
Scarlett Bermingham
Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
M
Mike Devoe
Mike Devoe
M
Michael S. LePera
Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)
P
Peter Elliott
Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)

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