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Project Nim
Directed by
James Marsh
PG-13
2011
1h 33m
Documentary
7.4
97%
84%
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Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.
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Cast of Project Nim
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
Stephanie LaFarge
Self
Herbert Terrace
Self
Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
Jenny Lee
Self
Laura-Ann Petitto
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)
James Marsh
Director
Elizabeth Hess
Writer
Simon Chinn
Producer
Prudence Arndt
Producer
Nancy Abraham
Producer
Project Nim Ratings & Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
This haunting life story is an exquisite example of non-fiction filmmaking as full-bodied, emotionally complex drama.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
There is no question Nim was exploited for human gain, yet there are important aspects which Marsh leaves unexplored.
TheWrap
Leah Rozen
Project Nim nimbly serves up a profoundly sad tale that raises as many thought-provoking questions as it answers.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
This many-faceted time capsule sheds little light, but buried inside it are vexing questions and the still-beating heart of a special creature.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
You end up fearing for the humans who contact him. At the same time, you feel his rage.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Marsh ... masterfully spins a harrowing tale of human arrogance that eventually gives way to cruelty bordering on the pathological.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Nim is as unforgettable as the treatment of him is unspeakable.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Like the experiment itself, "Project Nim" morphs from something inspiring and often humorous to a pointed and disturbing portrait of arrogance run amok. Greed and glory end up overriding decency and altruism, and it's heartbreaking to watch.
IndieWire
Leonard Maltin
If movies about talking cars or warlike robots don't interest you, Project Nim is the latest documentary (following Buck) to offer a satisfying, adult alternative. It tells a story that is both stranger and more thought-provoking than...
San Francisco Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
After watching "Project Nim," a distressing portrait of a misguided 1970s language experiment, you'll be glad you're not a chimp in a cage. But you might want to revoke your membership in the human race.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What makes this film especially engrossing is that what happened between that chimp and the humans with whom he spent his life in intimate contact turns out to be only half the story that Marsh, who directed the electrifying "Man on Wire," has to tell.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Marsh tells this story clearly and sympathetically, and he has the backlog of film and the witnesses to do so.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
At times hilarious but ultimately heartbreaking, "Project Nim" is a great chronicle of the 1970s and all the nutty ideas that implies; academia in particular comes in for a hard reckoning.
Film.com
William Goss
The film as a whole maintains a precarious but rewarding balance between multi-generational soap opera and simplistic animal-rights agitprop.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
As he did in Man on Wire, Marsh seamlessly integrates dramatized shots and scenes with authentic home-movie and news footage of Nim and his human companions. I've never been a fan of recreations in documentaries, but Marsh uses them better than...
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
For a film where so many people seem, in varying degrees, culpable, Marsh indulges in very little finger-pointing. He doesn't need to. The indignities are hiding in plain sight.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Marsh never speaks on or off camera, but his editing of the testimony makes clear his belief that in trying to make Nim more human, his teachers made themselves less so.
Slate
Dana Stevens
It's a gripping, unsentimental, at times unbearably sad real-life drama about an animal torn from his own world and stranded in the human one.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
A focused, very good documentary instead of the great one that could have been crafted from this bizarre true tale with a bit more scope.
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