DVD
Project Nim
Languages
In English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Performers
Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Jenny Lee.
Publication Information
Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Films, [2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images.
Summary
Nim was the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark experiment in the 1970s. Taken out of his natural environment from birth, Nim was raised and nurtured like a human child to discover if he could learn to communicate with language. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, Project Nim 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 cominc, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book "Nim Chimpsky : the chimp who would be human" by Elizabeth Hess.
Originally released as a documentary in 2011.
Special features: Audio commentary with director James Marsh ; "Making Nim" featurette ; "Bob's journey" featurette ; theatrical trailer.