Project Nim
2011 · directed by James Marsh
- Rating
- 79/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Project Nim (2011), directed by James Marsh, rates 79/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Bob Angelini
- Bern Cohen
- Reagan Leonard
- Nim Chimpsky
- Stephanie LaFarge
- Herbert Terrace
- Wer LaFarge
- Jenny Lee
- Laura-Ann Petitto
- Bill Tynan
Crew
- Michael Simmonds — Director of Photography
- Jinx Godfrey — Editor
- Dickon Hinchliffe — Original Music Composer
More from James Marsh
- Man on Wire (2008) — 83/100 · hit
- Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009) — 79/100
- The Theory of Everything (2014) — 77/100
- Shadow Dancer (2012) — 68/100
- The King (2006) — 65/100
- The Mercy (2018) — 62/100
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