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Project Nim (2011)

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Documentary / 93 min / PG-13

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

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Bob Angelini Bob Angelini Lab Tech Bern Cohen Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon Reagan Leonard Reagan Leonard Stephanie LaFarge Nim Chimpsky Self (archive footage) Stephanie LaFarge Self Herbert Terrace Self Wer LaFarge Self (archive footage) Jenny Lee Self

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Cast 27

Bob Angelini
Bob Angelini Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
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
Sarah Sakaan Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit
Dennis Lauricella Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit
Robert Nesi Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)
Scarlett Bermingham
Scarlett Bermingham Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
Mike Devoe Mike Devoe
Michael S. LePera Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)
Peter Elliott Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)

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