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Details: 2011, UK, USA, Cert 12A, 93 mins
Direction: James Marsh
Summary: A documentary following the life of Nim, a chimp who became the subject of an experiment in 70s America to raise a monkey as a child
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Peter Bradshaw
A documentary about a radical 1970s social experiment shows human beings in a pretty poor light, says Peter Bradshaw
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Jeremy Kay
Jeremy Kay: James Marsh kicks off Sundance with a film about a chimpanzee living with a rich, hippy family that exposes human vanity
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Peter Singer for the New York Review of Books blog: How the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky was treated was wrong, and such invasive research should be consigned to history
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Carole Jahme: Two films on release in the UK later this week, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the documentary Project Nim, demonstrate that fact is stranger and sadder than fiction
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In the early 70s, a primate named Nim Chimpsky was the subject of an experiment whose purpose was to learn whether language is innate. Now, his strange life has been turned into a documentary by Man on Wire director James Marsh, writes Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy
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Project Nim tells the story of a chimpanzee raised like a human child in the 1970s. Catherine Shoard talks to the film's producer, Simon Chinn, and Bob Ingersoll, a former graduate student partly responsible for Nim's care
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Film festival hoping its non-fiction premieres will be Oscar big hitters following success of 2008 James Marsh documentary
