Human Nature

“In the Interest of Civilization… Conform.”

Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins) is a scientist obsessed with teaching table manners to lab mice, and he is in love with Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette), a naturalist who writes about the wilderness. On a walk in the woods, the two find Puff (Rhys Ifans), a man raised outside society. Michel Gondry's first feature, from a Charlie Kaufman script, ends up in a lab with Nathan, Lila and Puff arguing over what should be kept of him.