Nim's Island

Name: Nim's Island
Released: 2008-4-4
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler

Nim's Island

PG
1h 35m
2008

51%

age 7+

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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. Based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard.

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Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

51%

Critics Consensus: Despite good intentions, Nim's Island flounders under an implausible storyline, simplistic stock characters, and distracting product placement.

Reviews

Financial Times

Karl French

This film wants to be cute but is instead nauseatingly twee, and features what is by a great dista...

October 7, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Bold Life (Hendersonville, NC)

Marcianne Miller

Particularly for young girls and their supportive parents, Nim's Island is an entertaining, empowe...

a nice choice for family movie night if you have kids who haven't yet reached their teens

The material isn't up to the level of the film's lead, Abigail Breslin.

Common Sense Media

age 7+

Common Sense Says

Book-based tropical adventure is good family fun.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Nim's Island is kid-friendly adventure movie that has some intense moments of peril (particularly during two scary storms) but is ultimately a positive story with a great role model for tween girls (and boys!). The book-and-science-loving 11-year-old heroine is left alone on a tropical island by her father (her mother died when she was a baby, which is explained in the opening sequence) and has to fend for herself when he's delayed in getting back to her. She gets scared and upset and even hurts herself, all of which may bother some young and/or sensitive kids, but she's also resourceful and not afraid to ask for help.