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Project Nim
2011 6.8 (134 votes) 1h 33m
Official Website
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
BBC Film
Red Box Films
Passion Pictures
Icon Productions

Project Nim

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

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.

Key Crew

Director: James Marsh

Producer: Simon Chinn

Director of Photography: Michael Simmonds

Top Cast

Bob Angelini
Bob Angelini

Lab Tech

Bern Cohen
Bern Cohen

Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard
Reagan Leonard

Stephanie LaFarge

Videos

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