Be the hero of your own story.
Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island.
Genre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Family
Runtime: 96 minutes
Rating: 6.1/10 (8,436 votes)
Release Date: 30 March 2008
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: Walden Media
Sound: Dolby Digital, DTS, SDDS
MPAA: Rated PG for mild adventure action and brief language.
Director(s): Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Related Videos for Nim's Island (2008)
Thinking of watching this movie? Then click on the like button!
Producer(s):
Alan Edward Bell - co-producer (as Alan Bell)
Stephen Jones - executive producer
Paula Mazur - producer
Murray Pope - co-producer
Writer(s):
Joseph Kwong - (screenplay) &
Paula Mazur - (screenplay) and
Mark Levin - (screenplay) &
Jennifer Flackett - (screenplay)
Wendy Orr - (novel "Nim's Island")
Cast:
Abigail Breslin - Nim Rusoe
Jodie Foster - Alexandra Rover
Gerard Butler - Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
Michael Carman - Captain
Mark Brady - Purser
Anthony Simcoe - First Mate
Christopher Baker - Ensign
Peter Callan - Edmund's Father
Rhonda Doyle - Edmund's Mother
Russell Butler - Old Fisherman
Music: Patrick Doyle
Alan Edward Bell - co-producer (as Alan Bell)
Stephen Jones - executive producer
Paula Mazur - producer
Murray Pope - co-producer
Writer(s):
Joseph Kwong - (screenplay) &
Paula Mazur - (screenplay) and
Mark Levin - (screenplay) &
Jennifer Flackett - (screenplay)
Wendy Orr - (novel "Nim's Island")
Cast:
Abigail Breslin - Nim Rusoe
Jodie Foster - Alexandra Rover
Gerard Butler - Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
Michael Carman - Captain
Mark Brady - Purser
Anthony Simcoe - First Mate
Christopher Baker - Ensign
Peter Callan - Edmund's Father
Rhonda Doyle - Edmund's Mother
Russell Butler - Old Fisherman
Music: Patrick Doyle
Posted on: April 17, 2008
September 9th, 2008
One of the best children fantasy films that I've ever seen. I'm reallysurprised at how low its rating is. Its amusing and fun and promotesimportant values such as courage, self-reliance, and heroism. It alsodoes a great job in exploring what it means to be a hero and shows howa person can overcome the greatest phobias and other obstacles ifmotivated.
I'm a bit tired of fantasy films that always end in battles. This was afilm that you could show to the entire family.
The DVD has some unusually interesting deleted scene that show adifferent take on the story.
My congratulations to the film makers.
October 25th, 2008
This movie is sooooooooo boring and I strongly believe it's not a moviefor people who are older than 6 years old.
All the things in the movie don't make sense. The little girl is waytoo smart and too strong in the movie. I assure you she is evenstronger and smarter than batman at the same age!!!! However, besidesher,all other people in the movie are VERY stupid and being just likekids.
Her father just has unlimited luck and I am wondering how he cansurvive and get the new boat. All this thing is one of the biggestmystery in the movie history. It's totally waste of time to watch thismovie if you think your IQ/EQ is as normal as other person.
November 16th, 2008
Poor Jody. I think she is an intelligent woman if not particularly apowerful actress. But she got herself not a bind here.
I think his project started out with more ambition, more ambiguitybetween the realities in Jody's written stories and her lived stories.I think the original idea was simple, to fold these together, to mergeher identity with that of the little girl and that of her ghostlyadviser with her father.
It still works if you allow this. But the script as if becomes, Jodyherself and the realistic tone of the thing fight you all the way.
The tragedy is not ours as much as it is Jody's. I think she wantsdesperately to be in intelligent movies. And mostly, she fails asprojects change after she has committed. I can think of a few wherethis is true. That horrible Sagan thing, "Contact." The one whereFincher started with a previsualized architectural movie "Panic Room"and had to change for budgetary reasons to a villain's vehicle. Only"Lambs" and "Driver"worked the way they were supposed to, withmeaningful narrative experiment.
The story here has little magic: there are two distinct females: aplucky girl and an obsessive, reclusive woman. One is writer, the othera reader, it hardly matters which. One gets in a fix and the otherhelps. The order of that also matters little.
It could have been wonderful, worthy of Medem, worthy of our time,worthy of hers. But somewhere along the line the antenna blew down.
Ted's Evaluation — 1 of 3: You can find something better to do withthis part of your life.
November 30th, 2008
When a marine biologist's boat is damaged in a storm, he is unable toreturn home to the island where his eleven year old daughter Nim(Abigail Breslin) is left all alone. After the desperate girl emailsher fictional hero Alex Rover (Gerard Butler) for help, the character'sagoraphobic creator (Jodie Foster) decides to head for the island,conquering her fears in the process.
My seven year old daughter had this film recommended to her by a schoolfriend, and to be fair, I can understand why: Nim's Island is exactlythe kind of wish-fulfilment cack undemanding girls of that age lap up:a few cute animals, a character they can identify with, a bit of mildperil, and a happy ending, and they're usually content! I, on the otherhand, am a cynical adult and can see this film for the garbage that itreally is…
I don't see a charming tale of fun of adventure; I see a horribly tweestory which liberally steals from the much better Romancing the Stone(in which a timid writer also braves danger in a desperate bid torescue someone), whilst throwing in pointless plot threads (thedisappearance of Nim's mother, the Buccaneer, the circling sharks) thatmake little sense and fail to go anywhere interesting.
I don't see a brave girl protecting an idyllic island paradise from thethreat of evil businessmen; I see a misguided brat who attacks innocenttravellers because she believes, thanks to her father's teachings, thatshe has the exclusive right to enjoy what does not really belong toher.
I don't see Gerard Butler's marine biologist father as the perfectcaring parent: I see an irresponsible man who deprives his child ofimportant social skills and who ultimately leaves her to fend forherself whilst he tries to achieve his own selfish goals.
I don't see what is funny about launching animals through the air tocertain doom via catapult. or what is so hilarious about mental illness(Foster's agoraphobia and hallucinations, and Butler's obvious OCD),but I do see that the makers of this tripe believe that pelican's havean extremely high IQ.
And I don't see how Jodie Foster will ever live down the embarrassmentof her awful, charmless and throughly cringe-worthy performance. I do,however, expect to see the people behind the lamentable CGI effects inthis mess joining Ms. Foster in the struggle to find further work.