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Critic Roger Ebert
rated 8

...a fascinating documentary...

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Critic Scott Tobias
rated 8

...shows the human capacity for cruelty and narcissism as well as compassion and selflessness.

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Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 8

...a gripping documentary.

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Critic Dan Jolin
rated 8

Gripping, heart-wrenching, powerful and a sad indictment of scientific practice, which shows that ‘human’ and ‘humane’ are all-too-often mutually exclusive.

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Critic Jacob Wendt Jensen
rated 8

Ved at interviewe mange af dem, som Nim mødte på sin vej, fortæller James Marsch en fascinerende historie om homo sapiens.

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Critic Mads Suldrup
rated 7

...et velfortalt portræt af de ejendommelige eksistenser bag eksperimentet, og den tidsalder det opstod i.

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Critic Andreas Samuelson
rated 8

...en stark, intressant och ytterst relevant dokumentär om hur människan återigen utnyttjar naturen i sökandet på svar om beteenden där ett skadat liv blir resultat av en meningslös fråga.

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Cast & Crew

James Marsh
Director
Bern Cohen
As Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
As Stephanie LaFarge
Bob Angelini
As Lab Tech

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Project Nim tells the fascinating and thought-provoking story of Nim,s a chimpanzee who was taken from his mother at birth and raised like a human child as part of groundbreaking experiment in the 1970s. The film follows Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, captureing his remarkable ability to learn and communicate through sign language, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way. But as Nim grows older and stronger, he begins to challenge the experiment's assumptions about the nature of humanity and animal behavior, raising profound questions about what it means to be human. With rare archival footage and intimate interviews, Project Nim offers a captivating and unforgettable biography of an animal we tried to make human.

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