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Nim's Island (Widescreen Edition)
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Genre | Kids & Family |
Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Dubbed, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen, Color |
Contributor | Jennifer Flackett, Wendy Orr, Bryan Probets, Joseph Kwong, Mark Brady, Gerard Butler, Russell Butler, Paula Mazur, Peter Callan, Christopher Baker, Mark Levin, Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Colin Gibson, Michael Carman, Rhonda Doyle, Anthony Simcoe See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 36 minutes |
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Product Description
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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.
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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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Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.56 x 5.22 x 7.54 inches; 0.32 ounces
- Item model number : 889156
- Director : Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Dubbed, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen, Color
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : August 5, 2008
- Actors : Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin, Michael Carman, Mark Brady
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B001APZMJI
- Writers : Jennifer Flackett, Joseph Kwong, Mark Levin, Paula Mazur, Wendy Orr
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,364 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,956 in Kids & Family DVDs
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1. Most notably, Jodie Foster (Nim's Island) and Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone) are both successful female novelists who write adventure stories centering around a handsome and courageous Indiana Jones - type hero whom they are more or less in love with, whether they want to acknowledge it or not.
2. They are both somewhat agoraphobic, not wanting to leave their safe and quiet homes to venture forth into the big, uncertain city (San Francisco for Foster, New York for Turner).
3. Both are driven to do just that by the desperate beckoning of other female characters who are both facing some sort of peril.
4. Both women find themselves pushed to their limits and forced to face their fears by the cocky yet charismatic male leads (Gerard Butler in Nim's Island and Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone).
5. Both Swiss Family Robinson and Nim's Island involve families living on remote tropical islands in highly sophisticated yet somehow pleasingly Gilligan's Island-ish treehouse dwellings.
6. Both SFR and NI have animal-to-human interactions that make it seem that the animals are on a par with the humans in terms of IQ.
7. Swiss Fam and Nim also include the buccaneers/pirates-invading-our-island subplot complete with organized island-defense strategies involving rudimentary weapons "manned" by animals.
There's definitely nothing in Nim's Island that kids can't handle, and little girls will find it especially thrilling to have the rare opportunity to watch a young girl be the center of an honest-to-goodness movie adventure. So if you like Romancing the Stone and Swiss Family Robinson, Nim's Island is probably a safe bet for all the parents out there who can't stand the thought of another noisy and mindless animated feature.
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It made me glue to the TV it was that brilliant from beginning till end, there were laugh and cries through this movie, i enjoy it that much i would love to watch the film over and over again i wouldn't get bored and i also recommend this movie to my family.