Project Nim

Name: Project Nim
Director: James Marsh
Released: 2011
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Jenny Lee, Laura-Ann Petitto, Bill Tynan

2011 · 93 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 8,680 VOTES · DIR. James Marsh

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,213 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:34 A chimpanzee infant left with his mother is a thing, a lump.

00:05:50 with an animal was... Nothing would have stopped that.

00:09:37 half asleep, having a bottle

00:13:10 He knew every dynamic that was in the room, instantly.

00:17:02 He explained it was a language project

00:20:38 So I set up a classroom at Columbia.

00:24:40 I was aware that there was an estate that Columbia owned in Riverdale

00:28:43 We were supposed to teach these particular signs to Nim

00:31:36 I'd feel it inside

00:34:57 at least from his side.

00:38:23 And you'd get a running shock up your arm.

00:41:32 about letting the cats around him

00:44:53 And he went to reach for my face again. I went, "Whoa!"

00:49:18 If he was tranquillised, he'd be easier to control

00:53:42 and he took his time

00:57:38 So, you got to socialise

01:01:18 I didn't do the kind of things

01:04:45 He talked about the trees, the berries that he found.

01:08:28 It's been difficult to fund social research in general.

01:12:22 Nim as special, above anyone else in the group

01:15:43 Our opponents were pigheaded, but they weren't stupid.

01:18:56 if that's gonna be your attitude.

01:22:35 "so maybe you shouldn't go into his facility."

01:26:19 Yeah, I know, buddy. Who am I? Who am I?

Cast & Characters

Stephanie LaFarge Self Herbert Terrace Self Jenny Lee Self Laura-Ann Petitto Self Bill Tynan Self Joyce Butler Self Renne Falitz Self Bob Ingersoll Self

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,213

Dialogue density13.0 lines / min

First line00:01:34

Final line01:26:19

Production Record

DirectorJames Marsh

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes8,680