Project Nim

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-08-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (6962 Reviews)

Director:

James Marsh

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Nim Chimpsky Stephanie LaFarge Herbert Terrace Wer LaFarge

Writer:

Elizabeth Hess (book)

Fullplot:

From the Oscar-winning 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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