As the heroine of “Nim’s Island,” Abigail Breslin embodies a great kid fantasy — she’s smart, courageous, independent and she lives on a tropical island with her doting father (Gerard Butler) and a ...

Nim’s Island is the latest so-so effort from Walden Media. Like most of their films, it is based on a children’s book, and like many of their films, it is directed by a first-time feature-film ...

Film director James Marsh described his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire as a "heist" film. His new documentary, Project Nim, is a heist film too. It's about a chimpanzee that was taken away from ...

To conduct the study, baby Nim is taken from his mother and given to Stephanie LaFarge, a former psychology student of Dr. Terrace’s who is already raising several children of her own on the Upper ...

In the early 1970s, Columbia University psychology professor Herbert Terrace speculated that if a chimpanzee were raised like a human child in a human home and taught sign language — because chimps ...

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Perhaps Herbert ...

Whether he's zooming past in a pushchair, perched on a lavatory seat or getting a little too intimate with a passing cat, it's impossible not to be charmed by Nim the chimpanzee. Nim Chimpsky, to give ...

James Marsh again proves himself a storyteller of impeccable craftsmanship and delicacy in this unsettling but enthralling animal science study. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic The British ...

"Project Nim," a documentary by Oscar-winning director James Marsh, is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story about a home-bred, pot-smoking, cookie-chomping chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky. Nim was ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...