Nim's Island (Widescreen Edition) |  | Directors: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Actors: Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin, Michael Carman, Mark Brady
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2252752
UPC: 024543527527
EAN: 0024543527527
ASIN: B001APZMJI
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 5, 2008
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
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Adventure doesn't always begin with pirates on the high seas or explorers deep in the desert; sometimes it starts with an idyllic life on a private island in the middle of the South Asiatic Sea. For 11-year old Nim (Abigail Breslin) and her father and microbiologist Jack Russo (Gerard Butler), life is perfect thanks to their love of nature, Jack's mechanical ingenuity, and regular deliveries via supply ship. Loneliness is never an issue for Nim because of her special friendships with Selkie the sea lion, Galileo the pelican, and Freddie the iguana and her education is intensive, if rather unique. Adventure and imagination are ways of life for Nim whether she's heading out to sea to help her father collect plankton specimens, playing soccer on the beach with Selkie, or delving into the latest Alex Rover adventure novel, but everything changes when Jack departs on the boat for a two-night expedition to collect plankton specimens and gets caught in an unexpected storm. Alone on the island, Nim begins to worry about her father's safety as well as her own and, through a chance email, connects with Alex Rover (Jodie Foster) whom she begs to come help find her father. Problem is, author Alexandra Rover is an unbalanced big city shut-in who's afraid to leave her townhouse, not the fearless adventure hero portrayed in her books. Nim, Alexandra, and Jack embark upon the adventures of a lifetime in which each must overcome his or her own fears and perceived powerlessness and limitations in order to grow and help one another. The question is; can each prevail against his or her own insecurities and the fury of nature? Based on the novel Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, Nim's Island is first and foremost a captivating adventure full of suspense and peril which also offers a touching look at the love between a father and daughter. (Ages 7 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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 Two Great Stars, One OK Little Girl, and a Denunciation of Tourism January 9, 2010
Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States)
Nim's Island is the sort of place where you might want to escape from, but there's something a little screwy about Jack Rusoe and his desire to own a whole island and keep hid address a secret from his readers. It will just be for himself and Nim. Uh-oh, what happens when Nim grows up and decides she wants someone else besides Daddy? Is Jack going to approve?
In fact, the whole question, and its incestuous implications, gets sidestepped as the adventure begins and instead of reaching out, as Brooke Shields did for Christopher Atkins in The Blue Lagoon, for a peer's love, Nim instead is forced to summon Jodie Foster of all people! Well, not exactly Jodie, but the image of her favoriote fictional hero, Alex Rover, not realizing that Alex Rover is a woman. This is one of those pictures where the ground keeps shrinking, and it's like SLEUTH in that it turns out that everyone is played by a tiny number of actors. As we watched NIM'S ISLAND, it took the one of us who had misplaced her progressives upwards of 90 minutes to realize that Gerald Butler was playing both Nim's real Dad, Jack Rusoe AND the male version of Alex Rover.
Is the movie a journey for Jodie Foster to admit her femininity and learn to love holding hands and romping on the beach with Gerald Butler? We needed a whole new movie that showed us what happened when Foster meets Butler. They are two splendid actors, but they can't bring love at first sight to life without a slightly better script. Scenes with Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster were like some bitter version of a child star growing older and more and more out of touch with the real. Rusoe = sounds like Rousseau from LOST, the Frenchwoman who prowled the island crying out for her lost daughter. Also sounds quite a bit like Crusoe, like Robinson Crusoe. Notwthstanding what a weird Freudian romance it becomes (and what about that mother, swallowed by a whale but apparently monitoring Nim's progress in some spiritual way), both Butler and Foster deserved to get the Oscar and the scandal is, they didn't even get "NIM-inated."
Didn't know what to expect...went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised! January 7, 2010
Alan Holyoak (In the shadow of the Tetons)
We picked up a copy of Nim's Island few weeks ago, but I never felt motivated to plug it in and give it a look. Then last night my 10-yr old daughter and I watched it. I was amazed by how entranced I became when Emily Breslin started reading the new book from Alex Rover. The way the filming gave us a look into the imagination of 11-yr old Breslin was captivating. I would actually have been happy if more of the movie had been filmed that way.
Anyway, the plot development was interesting, and is in my opinion worthy of family viewing.
I liked the dual role played by Gerard Butler (Timeline (Widescreen Edition), The Phantom of the Opera (Full Screen Edition)) and the psychotic reclusive OCD writer role played by Jodie Foster.
I actually had to stop watching midway throuugh, but I plopped back down and watched the rest as soon as I had chance! I watched it all the way through, and enjoyed the whole thing!
Of course there were major weaknesses here and there in the storyline, but it's all in good fun, and I think "Nim's Island" is a great film for the kids (and their grown-ups) for a Saturday afternoon. It's escapist entertainment that is wholesome and fun.
4 solid stars!
Nim's Island January 5, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
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. If you have any children or the child you once were still lives inside you somewhere, then you should definitely see Nim's Island. Wonderful Little Kid - Big Kid Movie.
risk and redemption December 31, 2009
Leah Chang
...with a tagline for everyone, "Be the hero of your own story!"
You can read about principals and producers on the website and check out the narrative here on Amazon and elsewhere, so I'll highlight Selkie the sea lion, whose name suggests mythic Celtic and Scandinavian shape-shifting seals, the pelican named Galileo for free-flying conveniently natural GPS wherever you are (even on a remote island in the South Pacific whose inhabitants aspire to not being found by anyone ever), and Freddie the bearded dragon.
Especially as an artist and dweller in a coastal desert I love the tertiary color palette of the film - but what else would you find in an island setting? - along with relatively sparse though essential special effects. Patrick Doyle's wistfully fresh music fits perfectly. Concerning becoming the hero of our own stories, in this film, literally Berkeley-bound by agoraphobia Alexandra Rover (think about the implications of possessing a name like "Rover"), Jack Rusoe the dad and Nim his daughter all deal rather predictably with their own stuff as circumstances, the needs of others and more than a hint of irresistible grace push them into new dimensions. All three principal characters are tightly caught in their own self-defined world (since the dad in the story was wearing a wedding ring, I assume he'd been widowed) and for sure every one of us is most of the time, but how do those liminal, transitional moments marked by vestiges of what was and hints of not-yets and months full of fear, promise and future happen if by grace someone or something other than ourselves doesn't push us out of where we are?
Playing along with the closing credits is U2's "Beautiful Day"--
The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace
Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case...
A Favorite in our house December 26, 2009
K. Wheeler (Colorado)
My 7 year old daughter has fallen in love with Nims Island. My four year old son and I enjoy watching it also. I have wondered if the message in the movie is correct in conveying that it is okay to maroon yourself on an island and not go to school. However, I really don't think this is the message my daughter is getting. I think she just enjoys Nims brave attitude, and watching all the funny antics of the animals.
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