Poster for Project Nim (2011)

Movie Age rating in United States of America: PG-13

Project Nim (2011)

Jul 8, 2011 · 1h 33m

6.9/10 TMDB user score
146 votes on TMDB

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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Top cast

  • Bob Angelini Bob Angelini Lab Tech
  • Bern Cohen Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon
  • Reagan Leonard 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

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