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Released
2008 · FILM

Nim's Island

A young girl stranded on a remote island with her scientist father reaches out to a reclusive author, forming an unlikely partnership to save them both from disaster.

“Be the hero of your own story.”

Directed by
Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Written by
Joseph Kwong, Paula Mazur
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
96 min
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

A young girl lives on an isolated island with her scientist father and maintains a correspondence with a reclusive author of the novel she is reading.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stuart LevyShot by Stuart DryburghScored by Patrick DoyleDesigned by Barry Robison

Box Office

2008 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$100.1M

Budget$37.0M
Worldwide gross$100.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $48.0M — 48% of worldwide · International: $52.1M (52%)

Opening weekend: $13.2M — 28% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $16.3M — 34% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,513 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Insel der Abenteuerde
  • Insel der Abenteuerde
  • La isla de Nimes
  • L'Île de Nimfr
  • Alla ricerca dell'isola di Nimit
  • L'isola di Nimit

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