20 Jun 2006
Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
From 1970-1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch films.
Project Nim
The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.
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.
Top Billed Cast
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
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