What if elements of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" happened...for real? Such is the case with the revealing and heartbreaking doc "Project Nim," out this week on DVD from Lionsgate Home Entertainment – review to follow.

Title: "Project Nim"

Grade: 4

Cast: Nim

Director: James Marsh

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 minutes

Release Company: Lionsgate

Website: www.lionsgatedvd.com

The Flick: As a documentary filmmaker, James Marsh is becoming a real effective storyteller. His previous outing "Man on Wire" was a riveting story of a man who dared to take his love of tight rope...

There has always been something deeply unsettling about folks who would take an animal out of their own habitat for no reason, but the shameful human foes of "Project Nim" take scientific selfishness to a whole other level. As seen in "Man On Wire" helmer James Marsh's new outing, people’s own self-gratification and desire to make a name in the end costs a harmless and trusting chimpanzee his very sanity – it’s a devastating and at times hard to watch doc to be sure.

Back in the early 1970’s Columbia University behavioral psychologist Professor Herbert Terrace originates Project Nim, a re...

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