July 8, 2011
93 minutes
Documentary
Project Nim
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.
Trailer
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)
Chris Byrne
(Self)
Anna May Marsh
(Signing Girl: re-enactment unit)
Sarah Sakaan
(Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit)
Dennis Lauricella
(Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit)
Robert Nesi
(Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi))
Scarlett Bermingham
(Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit)
Mike Devoe
(Mike Devoe)
Michael S. LePera
(Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera))
Peter Elliott
(Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited))
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