Project Nim

Synopsis

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

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  Bob Angelini
  Lab Tech

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  Bern Cohen
  Dr. William Lemmon

• 

  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