Nim's Island is a 2008 American adventure-fantasy film based on the book of the same name by Wendy Orr. The film is directed by Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin and stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. The film was released on April 4, 2008. A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. Based on the book by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard