Nim's Island
- Abigail Breslin: Nim Rusoe
- Jodie Foster: Alexandra Rover
- Gerard Butler: Jack Rusoe / Alex Rover
- Rhonda Doyle: Edmunds mother
- Morgan Griffin: Alice
- Maddison Joyce: Edmund
Nim's Island (Original Title: Nim's Iceland ) is an American adventure film from 2008 was directed by husband and wife Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel How tucked together with Joseph Kwong and with the Producer Paula Mazur. is an island? Written ( Nim's Iceland ) by Wendy Orr.
Action
The marine biologist Jack Rusoe and his eleven year old daughter Nim live after the death of his wife on a secret island in the South Pacific (20 ° S, 162 ° W). On one of his expeditions to a remote atoll a storm is where Jack gets into distress and danger of drowning. At the time alone on the island, Nim learns in the Internet supposedly known from their favorite novels, adventurer Alex Rover, whom she adored. Behind the pseudonym of the email you received and hides the author Alexandra Rover, who has learned of the researchers on the island and hopes of Jack specialist information for her latest book. In order to answer the questions that Nim is taking a field trip to the volcano on the island where they can be easily injured, and also observed a ship drops anchor. Their crew examines the island on their suitability as a tourist attraction. Nim holds but for pirates and is preparing to leave the island seem dangerous. Alexandra has now suspect, rather than the scientist to have an upside to their own child in front of him. You who already afraid because of their claustrophobia, even leaving the house, gets a bad conscience, to have brought a child into dangerous situations and be responsible for its violation. So she asks Nim according to their age, and whether they need help, what Nim writes the truth and their supposed hero asks you to help her find her father.
Alexandra is at Nims security so concerned that they actually makes itself at the urging of her fictional character Alex Rover, which it constantly appears in a kind of schizophrenic hallucination, on the long journey to Nim. And, although the neurotic author with her novel character only shares the name: The research for her books, it operates exclusively on the Internet, she is terrified of spiders and diseases and constantly has disinfectant with you. While it is possible Nim to expel the first tourists, including tour operators frantically fleeing, Alexandra reached after an adventurous journey coast of the island and is rescued there by Nim at the last second from drowning. Nim, who had an adventurer and hero expected as a helper is deeply disappointed by the self- helpless woman, but eventually helps her to cope on the island. In the meantime, Jack overtaken in his effort to get back on land, a blow after the next. Nevertheless, he finally manages to reach the island on a raft that he could build from a few fragments of his wrecked boat.
Upon reaching land, he is impressed by the writer immediately, which has now made friends with his daughter. And Alexandra finds that Jack looks exactly as they had their own hero Alex always imagined so vividly. It follows the last sentence of the film, spoken by Nim in narrative form that now a new story begins, no one knows how it will end.
Background
The film was financed by the company Walden Media. It was in the summer of 2007 at the Hinchinbrook Iceland, in Port Douglas (Queensland ) and rotated in the Warner Roadshow Studios in Oxenford (Queensland ). The cost of production was estimated at 37 million U.S. dollars. The composer Patrick Doyle took the score along with the existing 57 musicians from Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra in Los Angeles.
The film opened in Australian cinemas on 3 April 2008 and in the U.S. on April 4, 2008. The German theatrical release followed on 19 June 2008. Grossed a total worldwide about 100 million U.S. dollars, including about 48 million U.S. dollars in the cinema of the United States and 4.07 million U.S. dollars in Germany.
Reviews
Justin Chang wrote in the journal Variety of 7 April 2008, the " picturesque comedy adventure" cant fast around under the weight of slapstick. It was intended strictly for children. Some dialogues are embarrassing, the action scenes are half-hearted. The number of cases of product placement - including Apple - was " alarming".
Kirk Honeycutt wrote in The Hollywood Reporter April 4, 2008, the film - unlike Romancing the Stone - have problems with it, to draw a clear dividing line between the real and the fictional world of the writer. The portrayal of Abigail Breslin was safe, while those of Jodie Foster bein think too much slapstick. The movie one can still like on a " grubby " type, his characters are engaging and just a few adults were compared to the fantasies of childhood immune.
Wesley Lovell wrote on www.oscarguy.com, the participation of Jodie Foster promise fun ( " Jodie Foster looks like fun ").
The Berliner Morgenpost wrote on 19 June 2008, the scenes with Jodie Foster would act as foreign bodies, their " wacky presentation to the Silly " - " to calculate a little ." Foster refer " constantly on yourself " what the " illusion of a perfectly closed in fantasy world " destroy. Abigail Breslin shows " refreshing insouciance ", which was mixed with the " mourning of the half-orphans ".