Project Nim
08/07/2011
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.
Movie Information
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
Herbert Terrace
as Self
Wer LaFarge
as Self (archive footage)
Jenny Lee
as Self
Laura-Ann Petitto
as Self
Bill Tynan
as Self
Joyce Butler
as Self
Renne Falitz
as Self
Bob Ingersoll
as Self
Alyce Moore
as Self
James Mahoney
as Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)
Henry Herrmann
as Self
Cleveland Amory
as Self (archive footage)
Marion Probst
as Self
Chris Byrne
as Self
Anna May Marsh
as Signing Girl: re-enactment unit
Sarah Sakaan
as Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit
Dennis Lauricella
as Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit
Robert Nesi
as Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)
Scarlett Bermingham
as Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
Mike Devoe
as Mike Devoe
Michael S. LePera
as Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)
Peter Elliott
as Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)
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