Released:
2011-07-08

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.

Director:
James Marsh

Runtime:
1h 33min

Genre:
Documentary

• Cast:
• 
  Bob Angelini
  as
  Lab Tech
• 
  Bern Cohen
  as
  Dr. William Lemmon
• 
  Reagan Leonard
  as
  Stephanie LaFarge
• 
  Nim Chimpsky
  as
  Self (archive footage)
• 
  Stephanie LaFarge
  as
  Self