Release Date: July 8, 2011 (limited)
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: James Marsh
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images)
Plot Summary: From producer Simon Chinn and director James Marsh, the Oscar®-winning team behind "Man on Wire" (Sundance '08 Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award), comes the extraordinary story of Nim Chimpsky, 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 picaresque 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.
Following Nim's 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.
Trailer
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: James Marsh
Screenwriter: Not Available
Starring: Not Available
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images)
Plot Summary: From producer Simon Chinn and director James Marsh, the Oscar®-winning team behind "Man on Wire" (Sundance '08 Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award), comes the extraordinary story of Nim Chimpsky, 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 picaresque 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.
Following Nim's 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.
Trailer