Nim's Island

2008

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy

48
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 101 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 38117 38.1K

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Plot summary

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.

Director

Jennifer Flackett Photo
Jennifer Flackett

Top cast

Gerard Butler Photo
Gerard Butler as Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
Jodie Foster Photo
Jodie Foster as Alexandra Rover
Colin Gibson Photo
Colin Gibson as Cruise Director
Abigail Breslin Photo
Abigail Breslin as Nim Rusoe
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
650.52 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.30 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 7 / 10

Think Like A Kid And This Will Be Tolerable & Fun

Silly? Yes. Predictable? Yes. For Kids? Yes. Entertaining? Yes.....even for adults, IF you don't take anything seriously and expect something a little dumb but charming.nonetheless. Picture yourself as a kid watching a movie and you'll enjoy it a lot more, because it's definitely a children's film. It also has an involving story. Once it starts you have to stick around and see how it winds up. With some movies, I could care less but this one, I cared.For those who have kids age 5-12, this is highly recommended. For adults, well, it's not bad. If you're looking for "clean" entertainment, you found it. It's not goody-goody, either, and it's not always a smart family movie (a father leaving his kid all alone for several days?) but it's a nice movie, has funny animal characters, a lead kid who is not a brat, nice island scenery, one big-name actress (Jodie Foster) and is a diversion for an hour-and-a-half.The little dragon "Fred" is the best of the non-humans. I don't know if that's the real noise that lizard makes, but it's fun to hear. Seals are always entertaining, too. The one in this film is very talented. As for the humans, Abigail Breslin as "Nim Rusoe" is a cute, likable kid. Gerard Butler plays both male leads and does them well enough that you forget he's doing two characters. Seeing Foster do slapstick while being a female "Mr. Monk" was a little odd but, I'm not going to knock her for trying.As another reviewer said here, put yourself in a little kid's shoes and enjoy the film.
Reviewed by michaelRokeefe 6 / 10

Pure and fun fantasy.

Fanciful adventure fun for the whole family. Nim Rusoe(Abigal Breslin)is a young girl that lives on a deserted island with her scientist father Jack(Gerard Butler). He is more interested in one cell creatures in the ocean, while Nim's best friends are a bearded dragon lizard named Fred, Galileo the pelican and Selkie the sea lion. The island paradise is full of adventure and imagination runs wild. While Jack is lost at seal, Nim reaches out via e-mail to her favorite author Alex Rover, who has turned out a series of adventure books about the self-named hero. The author is actually not the rugged swashbuckler adventurer in Nim's imagination, but Alexandra Rover(Jodie Foster), petite and germ obsessed, who lives like a hermit in her San Francisco apartment. Alexandra has hit a writer's block and wants to see for herself the volcano Jack had written about in National Geographic. She makes it to the tropical paradise and helps Nim wait out her father's return. Foster is at times humorous playing second fiddle to a too-damn cutsie, cutsie Breslin.
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