Human Nature is a 2001 comedy film, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel 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 on a young man raised as an ape (Ifans) and the molds he is formed in by behavioral scientist Robbins and body-hair-covered Arquette.