Project Nim
Project Nim
star 6.9 2011 1h 33m

Project Nim

"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.

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groups Top Cast

Bob Angelini

Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen

Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard

Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

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Nim Chimpsky

Self (archive footage)

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Stephanie LaFarge

Self

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Herbert Terrace

Self

person

Wer LaFarge

Self (archive footage)

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Jenny Lee

Self

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Laura-Ann Petitto

Self

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Bill Tynan

Self

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Joyce Butler

Self

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Renne Falitz

Self

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