Project Nim

The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.

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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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Creators

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James Marsh

director

Elizabeth Hess

writer

Cast

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Bob Angelini actor

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Bern Cohen actor

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Reagan Leonard actor

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Nim Chimpsky actor

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Stephanie LaFarge actor

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Herbert Terrace actor

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Wer LaFarge actor Jenny Lee actor

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Laura-Ann Petitto actor

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Bill Tynan actor

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Joyce Butler actor

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Renne Falitz actor

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Bob Ingersoll actor

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Alyce Moore actor

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James Mahoney actor

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Henry Herrmann actor Cleveland Amory actor

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Marion Probst actor

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Chris Byrne actor

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Anna May Marsh actor