
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
Overview
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
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Terrace
Self
Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
Jenny Lee
Self
Bill Tynan
Self
Joyce Butler
Self
Renne Falitz
Self
Bob Ingersoll
Self
Alyce Moore
Self
James Mahoney
Self (as Dr. James Mahoney)
Henry Herrmann
Self
Cleveland Amory
Self (archive footage)
Marion Probst
Self
Chris Byrne
Self
Anna May Marsh
Signing Girl: re-enactment unit
Sarah Sakaan
Renee Falitz: re-enactment unit
Dennis Lauricella
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit
Robert Nesi
Beefy Guy: re-enactment unit (as Robert J. Nesi)
Scarlett Bermingham
Laura-Ann Petitto: re-enactment unit
Mike Devoe
Mike Devoe
Michael S. LePera
Wer LaFarge: re-enactment unit (as Michael LePera)
Peter Elliott
Nim Cimpsky - Reenactment Unit (uncredited)
Bully
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980
Catching Hell
Winged Migration
Urbanized
Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Coteau Rouge
Kon-Tiki
Robot & Frank
Three Colors: White
Inside Llewyn Davis
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Paddington
Léon: The Professional
Django Unchained
Titanic
The Psychic
PK
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Shutter Island