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Project Nim

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
Jul 8, 2011 · 1h 33m
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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.

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CAST

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
Directed by James Marsh

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
BBC Film, Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Icon Productions, UK Film Council
Country
GB

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