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Critic Dan Jolin
rated 8

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

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Cast & Crew

James Marsh
Director
Bern Cohen
As Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
As Stephanie LaFarge
Scarlett Bermingham
As Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
Peter Elliott
As Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)
Bob Angelini
As Lab Tech
Alyce Moore
As Self
Bob Ingersoll
As Self

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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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