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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Classical in form, earnest, prestige and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Bob AngeliniLab Tech
- Bern CohenDr. William Lemmon
- Reagan LeonardStephanie LaFarge
- Nim ChimpskySelf (archive footage)
- Stephanie LaFargeSelf
- Herbert TerraceSelf
- Wer LaFargeSelf (archive footage)
- Jenny LeeSelf
- Laura-Ann PetittoSelf
- Bill TynanSelf
Crew
- James MarshDirector
- Elizabeth HessNovel
- Michael SimmondsDirector of Photography
- Dickon HinchliffeOriginal Music Composer
- Jinx GodfreyEditor
- Simon ChinnProducer
- Prudence ArndtProducer
- Nancy AbrahamProducer
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