Human Nature is a 2001 film comedy, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michael Gondry. It is Kaufman's second screenplay to be produced, after his debut with Being John Malkovich. Starring Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans, and Patricia Arquette, the film focuses a young man raised as an ape (Ifans) and the molds he is formed in by behavioral scientist Robbins and body-hair-covered Arquette.