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Collection of movies based off of the Nim's Island and Nim at Sea books by Wendy Orr. Nim's Island is a 2008 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and starring Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. A sequel, Return to Nim's Island, will air on the Hallmark Channel on March 15 in the U.S. and will be released on DVD 19 March 2013, exclusively to Wal-Mart, and two days later on 21 March worldwide. Bindi Irwin will replace Abigail Breslin as Nim Rusoe, Toby Wallace will replace Maddison Joyce as Edmund, and Matthew Lillard will replace Gerard Butler as Jack Rusoe, Nim's father. Return to Nim's Island will be released theatrically in Australia on 4 April 2013.
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
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.