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Apr 3, 2008 · “Nim’s Island” is a crowded one, a tropical isle jammed with childhood fantasies, exotic creatures, outlandish plots and improbable characters both real and imagined.
Academy Award winner Jodie Foster dazzles in this charming film as a reclusive, fainthearted novelist who reluctantly journeys to a tropical island when one of her biggest fans asks for her help. The writer of a popular series of adventure novels featuring the daring Alex Rover, Alexandra Rover (Foster) is nothing like her famously dashing literary creation. Duty calls, however, when she is ...
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).
When Nim (Bindi Irwin) and her father Jack (Matthew Lillard) discover that property developers have purchased Nims Island, Jack heads to the city to convince the powers-that-be that their island must be preserved at all costs. Nim stays behind to prove that a minimum of three endangered species currently live on the island, and the island is legally protected. Meanwhile, Edmund (Toby Wallace ...
Kids will love Nim and Jack's tricked-out tree house, which is much more elaborate than the simple hut described in the book the movie is based on -- ahh, movie magic. They'll also love Nim's island friends -- Selkie the sea lion, Fred the marine iguana, Chica the sea turtle, etc. -- and Nim herself.
When a young island-dweller loses contact with her scientist father, who's lost at sea, she reaches out to her favorite adventure writer for help. Watch trailers & learn more.
A girl. An iguana. An island. And e-mail. Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad sails off to study plankton for three days, leaving her alone on their island.
