Lucy The Human Chimp

Name: Lucy The Human Chimp
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 29, 2021
Duration: 68 min
Cast: Jacinta Mulcahy, Janis Carter, Lorna Nickson Brown, Matthew Brenher

2021

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HBO Max | Release Date (Streaming): April 29, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Jacinta Mulcahy, Janis Carter, Lorna Nickson Brown, Matthew Brenher

Summary: As a student in 1970s Oklahoma, Janis Carter took a job caring for Lucy, a chimp raised as a human by psychologists Maurice and Jane Temerlin. But when Lucy reached adolescence, the Temerlins realized her size and strength made her too dangerous to cohabitate with humans and devised a plan to take Lucy to Gambia, where she would be taughtAs a student in 1970s Oklahoma, Janis Carter took a job caring for Lucy, a chimp raised as a human by psychologists Maurice and Jane Temerlin. But when Lucy reached adolescence, the Temerlins realized her size and strength made her too dangerous to cohabitate with humans and devised a plan to take Lucy to Gambia, where she would be taught to live in the wild. Planning to go along for just a few weeks to help Lucy acclimate, Janis ended up becoming the leader of Lucy’s small chimpanzee troupe – and, ultimately, left behind her life in the U.S. forever. [HBO Max]… Expand

Director: Alex Parkinson

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 68 min

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Mike Scott

May 5, 2021

Rarely, however, are such stories as emotionally laden as that told in Lucy the Human Chimp, a documentary ostensibly about a science experiment but which quickly evolves into something both heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once. Read full review

John Anderson

Apr 29, 2021

Lucy the Human Chimp is a creative assemblage of sundry parts: The archival footage, of which there is a wealth; the news coverage given Lucy when she was a celebrity; and extensive restagings and re-enactments, a device that in many documentaries is either stiff or profoundly unreal but under Alex Parkinson’s direction—and with Lorna Nickson Brown in the role of Janis Carter—rings true. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Apr 29, 2021

By turns alarming and poignant, Alex Parkinson’s infuriatingly deferential film recounts how Carter — passionately attached to Lucy and admittedly clueless about how to facilitate her adjustment — abandoned her life to live with Lucy on a remote island. Her devotion is extraordinary, but her obliviousness is shocking. Read full review

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