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Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. Nim lives on a beautiful uncharted island with her father Jack Rusoe, a research scientist studying microscopic marine organisms. She spends her days having wild...

Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination.

Nim lives on a beautiful uncharted island with her father Jack Rusoe, a research scientist studying microscopic marine organisms. She spends her days having wild adventures in the woods along with her animal friends, Fred the lizard, Galileo the pelican and Selki the seal, using her wild imagination. She has a huge passion for books, especially the Alex Rover books.

Jack wants to take Nim on a two-day research trip looking for protozoa, but she begs him to leave her behind so she can help the hatching baby sea turtles. Jack reluctantly agrees and sails out to sea. While he is away, Alexandra Rover, the author of the Rover books, e-mails Jack to pick his brains about volcanoes for her next book. Thinking he is the great adventurer Alex Rover, Nim replies. Everything goes well until a huge storm hits the island and Jack becomes lost at sea. Nim sends a letter to her "literary hero" pleading for help.

But Alexandra is agoraphobic and never leaves the house. She can hardly even open her front door. She also has a wild imagination, where her fictional character Alex Rover, played by Gerard Butler who also plays Jack, appears and talks to her. He teases her and gives her pep talks. When they get Nim's letter, fictional Alex badgers Alexandra until he finally convinces her to leave the confines of her townhouse to go and help Nim.

After a long and terrifying journey, both Alexs make it to Nim's Island and try to help. But will they find Nim's father?

You can find out when this exciting film is released, on May 14, by KRS.

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