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Project Nim

Documentary

2011, Movie, 1h 33min

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.

Country: United Kingdom

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Reviews

Critic Roger Ebert

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...a fascinating documentary...

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Critic Scott Tobias

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...shows the human capacity for cruelty and narcissism as well as compassion and selflessness.

Read full review at The A.V. Club

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...a gripping documentary.

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Dan Jolin

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Gripping, heart-wrenching, powerful and a sad indictment of scientific practice, which shows that ‘human’ and ‘humane’ are all-too-often mutually exclusive.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Jacob Wendt Jensen

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Ved at interviewe mange af dem, som Nim mødte på sin vej, fortæller James Marsch en fascinerende historie om homo sapiens.

Read full review at Berlingske

Critic Mads Suldrup

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...et velfortalt portræt af de ejendommelige eksistenser bag eksperimentet, og den tidsalder det opstod i.

Read full review at Cinemazone

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Project Nim tells the fascinating and thought-provoking story of Nim,s a chimpanzee who was taken from his mother at birth and raised like a human child as part of groundbreaking experiment in the 1970s. The film follows Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, captureing his remarkable ability to learn and communicate through sign language, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way. But as Nim grows older and stronger, he begins to challenge the experiment's assumptions about the nature of humanity and animal behavior, raising profound questions about what it means to be human. With rare archival footage and intimate interviews, Project Nim offers a captivating and unforgettable biography of an animal we tried to make human.

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You can stream Project Nim on: Amazon Store Fandango at Home