Project Nim (2011)

About This Movie

Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. Its leading cast includes Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen and Reagan Leonard. It runs for 1 hour 33 minutes.

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

Official Trailer

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Cast

• Bob Angelini Lab Tech
• 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