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Return to Nim's Island

Return to Nim's Island

Family · Adventure · 2013

Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

Movie details

Return to Nim's Island

“Adventure runs wild, again.”

2013 Family · Adventure 1h 30m

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TMDB

6.5 / 10

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Fourteen year old Nim, more determined than ever to protect her island and all the wildlife that call it home, faces off against resort developers and animal poachers. Soon she realizes she can’t depend on her animal cohorts alone and must make her first human friend – Edmund, who’s run away to the island from the mainland – to save her home.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Brendan Maher

Written by

Cathy Randall · Ray Boseley

Matthew Lillard

Matthew Lillard

Jack

Bindi Irwin

Bindi Irwin

Nim

Andrea Moor

Andrea Moor

Minister O'Hare

Jack Pearson

Jack Pearson

Ben

Toby Wallace

Toby Wallace

Edmund

Sebastian Gregory

Sebastian Gregory

Frankie

Nathan Derrick

Nathan Derrick

Felix

Court is in session

Put Return to Nim's Island on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.