Nim's Island

Nim's Island

Nim's Island is a 2008 American-Australian adventure film written and directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, and based on the children's story of the same name by Wendy Orr. A young girl alone on a remote island seeks help from an agoraphobic San Franciscan author. While the author attempts to overcome her agoraphobia to search of her, Nim tries to overcome her fear of losing her father. It stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler, and was released on 4 April 2008 by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned $100,076,342 on a $37 million budget.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Stars: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman
Production: Fox Walden
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
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PG
Year:
2008
96
$47,912,652
Website
1,300 Views
Be the hero of your own story.
Your adventure starts here.

[from trailer]

Alex Rover:
I'm not afraid to go out!

[from trailer]

Jack:
Be the hero of your own life story.

Alex Rover:
Don't hand me that line - I wrote that line!

[from trailer]

Jack:
What are you afraid of?

Alex Rover:
Everything!

Captain:
What on earth are you doing?

Alex Rover:
I'm just having a nervous breakdown!

Nim Rusoe:
[steam violently spurts out from volcano] Did I do that?

Edmund's Mother:
This is no place for games!

Edmund's Father:
It's the perfect place for games!

Jack:
You got so much of your mother in you, you know that?

Nim Rusoe:
That's a good thing, right?

Jack:
Yeah, good. Sure. Unfortunately I could never win a fight with her, either.

Nim Rusoe:
Nobody invades my island and gets away with it.

[last lines]

Nim Rusoe:
The writer, and the scientist. That's how their story began. How it ends, exactly? Nobody knows.

Jack:
No parties while I'm gone!

Alex Rover:
Beautiful ocean, isn't it just great?

Alexandra Rover:
[immitating Alex's Scottish accent] No, it isn't just grrreat.

Alexandra Rover:
I took a plane, I took a helicopter, I stole a boat!

Nim Rusoe:
[to Alexandra] You came here all the way from San Fransisco and you don't know how to do anything.

Alex Rover:
What are these?

Alexandra Rover:
Airsick pills.

Alex Rover:
Don't they make you drowsy?

Alexandra Rover:
Drowsy? [cut to Alexandra snoring]

Nim Rusoe:
I don't have to go to school, I'm home schooled.

Security Guard:
[is checking Alex's bag] What's this?

Alex Rover:
It's for my soup.

Security Guard:
Not allowed.

Alex Rover:
How am I supposed to open it? With my teeth?

Security Guard:
[Holds up Purell] What are these?

Alex Rover:
Oh its hand sanitizer, it is an excellent...[stammers as guard confiscates Purell]

Security Guard:
Not allowed! I'm sorry madame. No liquids greater than 3 ounces allowed.

Alex Rover:
But I...

Security Guard:
Next!

Alexandra Rover:
I took a plane, I took a helicopter, I stole a boat!

Nim Rusoe:
[to Alexandra] You came here all the way from San Fransisco and you don't know how to do anything.

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