Category: Documentary
All Genres: Documentary
Release Year: 2011
Country: UK
Runtime: 93
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: James Marsh
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Michael Markowitz – (screenplay) and
John Francis Daley – (screenplay) &
Jonathan M. Goldstein – (screenplay) (as Jonathan Goldstein)
Michael Markowitz – (story)
Produced by: Prudence Arndt – archive producer
John Battsek – executive producer
George Chignell – co-producer
Simon Chinn – producer
Nick Fraser – executive producer
Hugo Grumbar – executive producer
Jamie Laurenson – executive producer
Andrew Ruhemann – executive producer
Maureen A. Ryan – co-producer
Nicole Stott – production executive: Passion Pictures
Cast: Bob Angelini – Lab Tech
Bern Cohen – Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard – Stephanie LaFarge
Music: Dickon Hinchliffe
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline:
Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
Plot: From the Oscar-winning 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.