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.
CAST
Nim ChimpskySelf (archive footage)
Stephanie LaFargeSelf
Herbert TerraceSelf
Wer LaFargeSelf (archive footage)
Jenny LeeSelf
Laura-Ann PetittoSelf
Bill TynanSelf
Joyce ButlerSelf
Renne FalitzSelf
Bob IngersollSelf
Alyce MooreSelf
James MahoneySelf (as Dr. James Mahoney)
