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Life is an adventure for a courageous youngster named Nim (Abigail Breslin), who lives on an exotic island with her marine-biologist father. and a menagerie of animal friends. When Nim's father goes missing, she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: adventurer Alex Rover (Gerard Butler). But what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is really Alexandra (Jodie Foster), a timid recluse. Though faint of heart, Alexandra must find the courage within herself to come to Nim's aid.

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Despite good intentions, Nim's Island flounders under an implausible storyline, simplistic stock characters, and distracting product placement.

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Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Karl French Financial Times This film wants to be cute but is instead nauseatingly twee, and features what is by a great distance the weakest performance of Foster's career. Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: B+ Feb 14, 2012 Full Review Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Drew Toal Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 24, 2011 Full Review Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Rachel Wagner Hallmarkies Podcast A terrific family adventure Apr 7, 2022 Full Review Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Betsy Bozdech Hollywood.com In an era when so many kids' movies rely on special effects and flashy animation to grab an audience's attention an old-fashioned adventure like Nim's Island is a refreshing island breeze Rated: 3/4 Sep 27, 2021 Full Review Nim's Island | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Merits a modest recommendation for its strong performances. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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June U It was nice to see Jody Foster. I think it was trying to show that love can give the strength to overcome difficulties and everyone needs someone in a life, but the storyline wasn’t so great. Wanted to learn more about why the writer has such symptom. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 07/19/24 Full Review quinto a Great movie adaptation of the book! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Jordan J Nims Island is a good film in its own right however it will only be better if they had done better in the writing stage. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/05/22 Full Review Audience Member This family-friendly take on Robinson Crusoe is okay. Nothing special but it has good acting, likable characters, a decent plot and okay development. Plus, Jodie Foster's character's agoraphobia suddenly becomes less of a laughing matter after the new decade we're currently in at the time I'm writing this had us being welcomed by a global pandemic. All of a sudden, her staying at home for months and ordering an absurd amount of hand sanitisers comes off more as being properly paranoid. It is sadly lacking in adventure, there's some stuff with tourists where our heroine pulls glorified Home Alone antics on them that feels pointless save for one brief moment, the comedy isn't anything remarkable and there's a weird production choice where it's obvious whenever the real animals are swapped for CGI doubles which don't look very good, given that this film came out in 2008. I don't really have anything else to say about this movie. If anything, I feel like I was grasping at straws to make this review not last more than a simple, laconic sentence. Still one of the more watchable family movies that came out at the time. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member I enjoyed it as a kid. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A cute movie with fine performances. That borrows from Romancing the Stone. Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jennifer Flackett Director Mark Levin Director Abigail Breslin Nim Jodie Foster Alexandra Rover Gerard Butler Alex Rover Michael Carman Captain
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Synopsis Life is an adventure for a courageous youngster named Nim (Abigail Breslin), who lives on an exotic island with her marine-biologist father. and a menagerie of animal friends. When Nim's father goes missing, she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: adventurer Alex Rover (Gerard Butler). But what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is really Alexandra (Jodie Foster), a timid recluse. Though faint of heart, Alexandra must find the courage within herself to come to Nim's aid.

Director
Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin

Producer
Paula Mazur

Screenwriter
Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Paula Mazur, Joseph Kwong

Distributor
20th Century Fox

Production Co
Walden Media

Rating
PG (Mild Adventure Action|Brief Language)

Genre
Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 4, 2008, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013

Box Office (Gross USA)
$48.0M

Runtime
1h 34m

Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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