Nim's Island

Nim's Island is a 2008 American film directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler, based on the book Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, a Canadian-born Australian writer. Be the hero of your own story. (taglines)

Dialogue

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


 * Jack: What are you afraid of?
 * Alex Rover: Everything!


 * Security Guard: [is checking Alex's bag] What's this?
 * Alex Rover: It's for my soup.


 * Security Guard: Not allowed.
 * Alex Rover: How am I supposed to open it? With my teeth?
 * Security Guard: [Holds up Purell] What are these?
 * Alex Rover: Oh its hand sanitizer, it is an excellent...[stammers as guard confiscates Purell]
 * Security Guard: Not allowed! I'm sorry madame. No liquids greater than 3 ounces allowed.
 * Alex Rover: But I...
 * Security Guard: Next!


 * Captain: (angry)What on earth are you doing?
 * Alex Rover: I'm just having a nervous breakdown!


 * Nim Rusoe: [steam violently spurts out from volcano] Did I do that?


 * Edmund's Mother: This is no place for games!
 * Edmund's Father: It's the perfect place for games!


 * Jack: You got so much of your mother in you, you know that?
 * Nim Rusoe: That's a good thing, right?
 * Jack: Yeah, good. Sure. Unfortunately I could never win a fight with her, either.


 * Nim Rusoe: Nobody invades my island and gets away with it.
 * Nim Rusoe: The writer, and the scientist. That's how their story began. How it ends, exactly? Nobody knows.


 * Jack: No parties while I'm gone!


 * Alex Rover: Beautiful ocean, isn't it just great?
 * Alexandra Rover: [immitating Alex's Scottish accent] No, it isn't just grrreat.


 * Alexandra Rover: I took a plane, I took a helicopter, I stole a boat!
 * Nim Rusoe: [to Alexandra] You came here all the way from San Francisco and you don't know how to do anything.


 * Alex Rover: What are these?
 * Alexandra Rover: Airsick pills.
 * Alex Rover: Don't they make you drowsy?
 * Alexandra Rover: Drowsy?


 * Nim Rusoe: I don't have to go to school, I'm home schooled.

Taglines

 * Be the hero of your own story.
 * Your adventure starts here.

Cast

 * Abigail Breslin - Nim Rusoe
 * Elizabeth Banks - Liz Rusoe
 * Jodie Foster - Alex Rover (Alexandra Rover)
 * Gerard Butler - Jack Rusoe
 * Anthony Simcoe - First Mate
 * Alphonso McAuley - Russell
 * Morgan Griffin - Alice
 * Michael Carman - Captain
 * Christopher Baker - Ensign
 * Maddison Joyce - Edmund
 * Peter Callan - Edmund's Father