Nim's Island

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Nim's Island

PG

2008

1h 34m

Kids & Family

Adventure

Comedy

Fantasy

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Life is an adventure for a courageous youngster named Nim, who lives on an exotic island with her marine-biologist father and a menagerie of animal friends. When Nim's father goes missing, she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: adventurer Alex Rover. But what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is really Alexandra, a timid recluse. Though faint of heart, Alexandra must find the courage within herself to come to Nim's aid.

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

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Karl French

Financial Times

Oct 7, 2018

This film wants to be cute but is instead nauseatingly twee, and features what is by a great distance the weakest performance of Foster's career.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Dec 17, 2008

Foster proves adept at broad physical comedy, the animated sequences charm, and codirectors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett send up the make-believe Rover with panache.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

May 2, 2008

The movie gets plain silly, but at least it's lively, and young girls will enjoy Nim's lifestyle in her eco-friendly and frolic-packed tropical paradise.

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

Oct 29, 2024

2.5/5

The film looks beautiful and the performances of Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster easily overshadow some of the weaker performances of other cast members.

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Rachel Wagner

Hallmarkies Podcast

Apr 7, 2022

A terrific family adventure

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 18, 2020

2.5/4.0

Merits a modest recommendation for its strong performances.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 9, 2026

I enjoyed this movie very much but this is my rating!

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Nicholas T.

@RT31153330 Nov 26, 2025

I’ll take this over Little Miss Sunshine and 300 any day.

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Wendy H.

@wshuff Aug 1, 2025

Nice family movie. Great for families with children various ages, which isn’t often easy to find.

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Hayleigh P.

@haytay.shows22 Jul 21, 2025

I thought this was a silly kids movie by the cover but it was actually really good. I hate being on the beach but I want her lifestyle. But make the beach, a forest with like a pond/creek/stream. Perfect. Living in a tree houses with wifi/electricity and your friends are animals? YES A few things I didn’t like though was that, Alex Rover went half way across the world just fir the little girl to hate her, she never got to tell her dad that she scared a whole cruise ship of people off the island on her own, and Alex rover and the dad just ended up together..? Like. To leading plot to them getting together, nothing.

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Nadine C.

@nadineosaurus Jul 2, 2025

I may need to do a rewatch as an adult, but I remember loving this film so much as a young girl seeking adventure. I also learned the magic of Purell hand sanitizer through this movie haha

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Jordan J

@_Jordan_ Sep 5, 2022

Nims Island is a good film in its own right however it will only be better if they had done better in the writing stage.

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Synopsis

Life is an adventure for a courageous youngster named Nim, who lives on an exotic island with her marine-biologist father and a menagerie of animal friends. When Nim's father goes missing, she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: adventurer Alex Rover. But what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is really Alexandra, a timid recluse. Though faint of heart, Alexandra must find the courage within herself to come to Nim's aid.

Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Producer: Paula Mazur
Screenwriter: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Paula Mazur, Joseph Kwong
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Walden Media
Rating: PG (Mild Adventure Action|Brief Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 4, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $48.0M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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