Project Nim (2011)

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93 min - Documentary - 12 August 2011 (Ireland)

7.5

Ratings: 7.5/10 from 2,220 users Metascore: 83/100
Reviews: 20 user | 123 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com

Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 10 wins & 12 nominations See more awards »

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Nim Chimpsky	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Stephanie LaFarge	...	Herself
	Herbert Terrace	...	Himself
	Wer LaFarge	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Jenny Lee	...	Herself
	Laura-Ann Petitto	...	Herself
	Bill Tynan	...	Himself
	Joyce Butler	...	Herself
	Renne Falitz	...	Herself
	Bob Ingersoll	...	Himself
	Alyce Moore	...	Herself
	James Mahoney	...	Himself (as Dr. James Mahoney)
	Henry Herrmann	...	Himself
	Cleveland Amory	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Marion Probst	...	Herself

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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. Written by Anonymous

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