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.
as Lab Tech
as Dr. William Lemmon
as Stephanie LaFarge
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Signing Girl: re-enactment unit
as Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit
as Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit
as Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)
as Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
as Mike Devoe
as Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)
as Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)
