NIM'S ISLAND Certificate U

NIM (Abigail Breslin) lives on a lush South Pacific island

with her scientist father Jack (Gerard Butler), who studies

plankton while the youngster amuses herself with animal chums

Selkie the sea lion, Galileo the pelican and Fred the bearded

dragon.

When Jack is lost at sea during a monsoon, Nim sends an

email SOS to her favourite writer, Alex Rover. Little does Nim

know that Alex is actually Alexandra (Jodie Foster), a recluse

who lives in San Francisco, far from the tropical locations she

writes about with such verve. Despite her all-consuming fear of

the outside world, Alexandra is moved by Nim's plight and she

follows the girl's co-ordinates – 20 degrees south, 162 degrees

west – to help the girl locate Jack.

Nim's Island is a fun and frothy girl's own adventure.

Foster is hilarious, playing an agora- phobic, who almost

hyper-ventilates when she runs out of antiseptic hand wash.

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