Human Nature (2001)

Directed by

Michel Gondry

Genre

comedy film, romance film, comedy drama

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 297 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A psychologist tries to teach a man raised by chimpanzees how to behave like a normal person. Meanwhile a writer with a hairy condition navigates love and society. The three characters' lives become tangled in strange ways.

quirkyoffbeatabsurdmelancholicwhimsicalslow-burnunsettlingdeadpan

What happens

Human Nature is a 2001 comedy drama film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry in his directorial debut. The film stars Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto, and Rosie Perez. It tells the story of three people—a writer with hypertrichosis, a man who was raised as a chimpanzee away from civilization, and a psychologist who attempts to socialize the chimpanzee-man into a civilized member of society and tame his more bestial instincts. It was a box-office bomb and received negative to mixed reviews. It was screened out of competition at the 54th Cannes International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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