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Nim's Island

Name: Nim's Island
Genre: Drama,Comedy
Released: 2008
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Michael Carman, Jodie Foster, Mark Brady, Christopher Baker, Gerard Butler

2008 Drama | Comedy

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A scientist's daughter loves a series of novels about a dashing explorer, whom she thinks is real. When her father is lost at sea, she sends an e-mail asking her hero to come and save him. Instead, her cry for help reaches the agoraphobic author of the books, who rarely leaves her New York flat, but plucks up the courage to come to the rescue. Comedy adventure, starring Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler

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Michael Carman

Jodie Foster

Mark Brady

Christopher Baker

Gerard Butler

Abigail Breslin

Morgan Griffin

Part of: Nim's Island Collection

Collection of movies based off of the Nim's Island and Nim at Sea books by Wendy Orr. Nim's Island is a 2008 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. A sequel, Return to Nim's Island, will air on the Hallmark Channel on March 15 in the U.S. and will be released on DVD 19 March 2013, exclusively to Wal-Mart, and two days later on 21 March worldwide. Bindi Irwin will replace Abigail Breslin as Nim Rusoe, Toby Wallace will replace Maddison Joyce as Edmund, and Matthew Lillard will replace Gerard Butler as Jack Rusoe, Nim's father. Return to Nim's Island will be released theatrically in Australia on 4 April 2013.