Project Nim

6.9 2011 93 min
PG-13
Documentary

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 n…

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Director
James Marsh
Classification
PG-13

Cast

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Bob Angelini Lab Tech
Bern Cohen Dr. William Lemmon
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

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