Walking out of a screening of “Nim”s Island,” I couldn”t help wondering just why Jodie Foster chose to appear in this movie. A family-fare adventure comedy, “Nim”s Island” stars Abigail Breslin as an ...

Jody Foster is a keeper. I didn’t like “The Brave One” but I couldn’t fault her performance. And Gerard Butler is perfect in any and every role. I can’t fathom why we don’t see him more!! Oh, and I ...

Nim Rusoe is a girl who joins her father, a scientist, when he does research on marine life on an island. It's just the two of them but she spends her time making friends with all the animals she ...

Nim’s Island is the latest so-so effort from Walden Media. Like most of their films, it is based on a children’s book, and like many of their films, it is directed by a first-time feature-film ...

This spring’s family adventure Nim’s Island stars Jodie Foster as children’s-book author Alex Rover, who writes thrilling adventures but because of agoraphobia can’t bring herself to leave the house.

I'm so confused. Did Nim's mother really get swallowed by a whale? Are Nim's father and the fantasy hero Alex Rover the same guy? Is child actress Abigail Breslin the reincarnation of child actress ...