Nim's Island
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by |
Jennifer Flackett Mark Levin |
| Produced by | Paula Mazumba |
| Screenplay by | Joseph Kwong Paula Mazur Mark Levin Jennifer Flackett |
| Based on |
Nim's Island by Wendy Orr |
| Starring |
Abigail Breslin Jodie Foster Gerard Butler |
| Music by | Patrick Doyle |
| Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| Edited by | Stuart Levy |
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| Distributed by |
20th Century Fox (USA) Universal Pictures (Latin America, UK, Canada) Summit Entertainment (Outside USA) |
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Release date
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4 April 2008 |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $37 million |
| Box office | $100.1 million |
Nim's Island is a 2008 American-Australian family adventure comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Walden Media, written and directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. The story is based on the children's story of the same name by Wendy Orr. A young girl, Nim, seeks help from the author of her favorite adventure series when her scientist father goes missing. Nim, though, lives on an island in the South Pacific. The author, Alexandra Rover, is agoraphobic and lives in San Francisco. While Rover attempts to overcome her agoraphobia in order to set out in search of her, Nim tries to overcome her fear of losing her father. In the meantime, a cruise ship company attempts to invade Nim's island with uncouth Australian tourists. Nim's Island 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.
Nim (Abigail Breslin) is an 11-year-old girl whose mother, Emily, has died. Nim's father, Jack Rusoe (Gerard Butler), a marine biologist, has told her that Emily was swallowed by a blue whale after it was scared by a ship called The Buccaneer. Nim lives with her father on a South Pacific island and has several local animals for company: Selkie the sea lion, Fred the bearded dragon, Chica the sea turtle, and Galileo the pelican. Jack takes the boat for a two-day scientific mission of to find Protozoa nim (a new species of plankton he named after his daughter); he wants to take his daughter along, but she convinces him that she needs to stay to oversee the imminent hatching of Chica's eggs and can manage on her own; they will be able to communicate by satellite phone.
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