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NIM |
Year: 2011
USA: Roadside Attractions
UK: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
Director: James Marsh
Country: UK
USA & UK: 93 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some strong language, drug content,
thematic elements and disturbing images
UK Certificate: 12A contains animal testing, strong language
and drug use
USA Release Date: 8 July 2011
UK Release Date: 12 August 2011
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Synopsis
From the Oscar and BAFTA winning filmmakers behind MAN ON WIRE,
James Marsh and Simon Chinn, comes the story of Nim the chimpanzee.
In the 1970s Nim 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.
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