Project Nim 2011

★ 6.9TMDB 1h 33min Director: James Marsh

Documentary

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.

Cast

Bob Angelini Lab Tech

Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon

Reagan Leonard Stephanie LaFarge

Nim Chimpsky Self (archive footage)

Stephanie LaFarge Self

Herbert Terrace Self

Wer LaFarge Self (archive footage)

Jenny Lee Self

Laura-Ann Petitto Self

Bill Tynan Self

Joyce Butler Self

Renne Falitz Self

Bob Ingersoll Self

Alyce Moore Self

James Mahoney Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)

Henry Herrmann Self

Cleveland Amory Self (archive footage)

Marion Probst Self

Crew

Director: James Marsh
Writers: Elizabeth Hess
Producers: Simon Chinn, Prudence Arndt, Nancy Abraham
Executive Producers: John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann, Jamie Laurenson, Nick Fraser, Hugo Grumbar, Sheila Nevins
Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
Editing: Jinx Godfrey
Composer: Dickon Hinchliffe
Production Design: Markus Kirschner

Details

Release date: Jul 8, 2011
Runtime: 93 min
Status: Released
Studios: BBC Film, Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Icon Productions, UK Film Council
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English