Nim's Island (2008)

4 questions

★★★★☆

Directed by: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin, Michael Carman

Question: Is Gerard Butler playing two roles a reference to "Peter Pan," in which the same actor usually plays both Mr. Darling and Captain Hook?

Cubs Fan ★

Chosen answer: No. Gerard Butler plays Alex Rover because Nim imagines him looking like her father. Alexandra Rover sees him like that merely for the sake of consistency within the film.

Phixius ★

Question: I can't figure out why the lizard is screaming when he is flying through the air because I'm sure that lizards don't scream.

luke skyjogger

Chosen answer: Because it's funny.

Grumpy Scot

Question: They may have answered this, but how does the island have plumbing, power, and Internet if it is remote and almost completely uninhabited?

Answer: Generator. It's shown several times during the film.

Brenda Elzin

Question: Why did Nim think Edmund was part of the story about her mother?

Answer: The name of the ship is the Buccaneer, and when Jack told Nim the story "The Scientist and the Blue Whale", he said that buccaneers showed up and that was why the blue whale swallowed the scientist (Nim's mother).

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: When Alexandra Rover is about to leave the apartment to go and help Nim, she is standing in front of the door debating if she can go or not (she is agoraphobic, afraid to leave her home). Notice that the baby chain is hooked to the door. Alex Rover (the imaginary adventure hero) is leaning against the wall telling Alexandra she can and must go help Nim and that she must turn the door knob. In the next scene, Alexandra turns the knob and opens the door. She never unhooked the baby chain, and Alex Rover is an imaginary character so he could not have unhooked it.

Robert Sullinger

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Quotes

Jack: Be the hero of your own life story.
Alex Rover: Don't hand me that line - I wrote that line.

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