In this lively adventure comedy for girls, Abigail Breslin plays a motherless tomboy living on a secluded Fiji island with her animal pals and her father, a marine biologist (Gerard Butler). After ...

Hypothetically, “Nim’s Island” should/could have been a fine film. The casting is inspired: pair Abigail “Little Miss Sunshine” Breslin with two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster in an uplifting family ...

Nim’s Island bogs down a bit in the midsection with a subplot that seems to be more about the “do” than the derring-do, but the oft-cited phrase about becoming the hero of one’s own story is a mantra ...