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Project Nim

Cast

Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard View All

Crew

James Marsh (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 8th, 2011

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

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...

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7 PROJECT A: PART III (Project P)

So, according to Wikipedia there will be a Project A 3, the sequel to Project A 2. I'm not very excited as Project A 2 was the perfect ending to the series - and we get a sequel. 30 something years la...

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JayDee
The film is presented through a mixture of archive material (home videos and photographs charting his life) alongside the standard talking heads approach featuring most of the important players in Nim's life.

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ash_is_the_gal
It was around this time that Herb began to run out of funding for his project, and coincidentally enough it was also around this time that Herbert Terrace admits to the world that his experiment had failed - not because he ran out of funding or because of any action on his part, but simply because h....