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Nim's Island (2008)

Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | Apr 09, 2008

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Details Release Date: Apr 04, 2008; Rated: PG; Length: 96 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Kids & Family; With: Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster

$LOST AND FOUND Jodie Foster helps Abigail Breslin find her father on Nim\'s Island | Nim\'s Island, Abigail Breslin, ...$

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LOST AND FOUND Jodie Foster helps Abigail Breslin find her father on Nim's Island

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Abigail Breslin stars in Nim's Island as a young girl living on a remote tropical outpost with only her scientist father (Gerard Butler) and a passel of anthropomorphized animal friends. When dad goes missing on a solo research trip, Nim reaches out to her literary hero, the dashing adventurer Alex Rover. Alex, it turns out, is actually an Alexandra — played as a neurotic, Purell-pumping agoraphobe by Jodie Foster. It's hard to imagine kids not enjoying the good-hearted, lovingly shot fantasy of it all, and Breslin is charming, though most viewers past puberty will likely yearn to be voted off the Island. B

Originally posted Apr 04, 2008 Published in issue #987 Apr 18, 2008 Order article reprints

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