Project Nim
“The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.”
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
27 people
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Known for
27 Dresses
Holy Rollers
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
Known for
We Are What We Are
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
James Marsh Director · Elizabeth Hess Author Dickon Hinchliffe Composer
Worldwide gross $410K · United States release July 8, 2011 · Produced in United Kingdom, United States
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Worldwide gross
$410,077
Production
BBC Film
Production · Studio
Red Box Films
Production
Passion Pictures
Production
Icon Productions
Production
UK Film Council
Production
United Kingdom · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 20, 2011
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · July 8, 2011
Theatrical
France
January 11, 2012 · Theatrical
Ireland
August 12, 2011 · Digital
South Korea
August 9, 2012 · Theatrical
Spain
January 25, 2013 · Theatrical
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