Plays Wednesday, April 25 at 7:30 PM at the Michigan. Part of the Science on Screen Film Series presented by Arbor Research Collaborative for Health. Featuring a live Q&A after the film!
Will Rodman (JAMES FRANCO), a scientist in San Francisco, is experimenting with a drug that he hopes will cure his father's (JOHN LITHGOW) Alzheimer's disease. After his work is deemed a failure, Will becomes the guardian of Caesar, an infant chimp who was exposed in-utero to Will's drug. Caesar displays unusual intelligence, and Will decides to continue his experiments secretly. But as Caesar's intellect and abilities grow, he comes to represent a threat to man's dominion over Earth.