Project Nim

Overview

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.

Details

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