For an islomaniac the best kind of movie is the one that features a remote island.  Although rare, every couple of years a movie comes out that features a remote, if not fictitious island somewhere in the world.

 Today, Nim’s Island opens in theatres. An action packed, family friendly movie, set primarily on a remote private island, the film stars Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler and 11-year-old Abigail Breslin. 

Based on the popular book by Wendy Orr, Foster portrays Alexandra Rover, a bestselling author who is also agoraphobic. The film is set in a deserted tropical paradise that is home to Nim (Breslin), her father (Butler) and some friends, Selkie the sea lion, Fred the bearded dragon and a pelican named Galileo. The film, directed by husband-and-wife team Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, was actually filmed on the sandy beaches of Australia’s Gold Coast and in the lush rain forests of Hinchinbrook Island, a nature preserve with vast strips of white sand beaches and a vast mountain that looks like a volcano.

Nim’s Island opens nation wide in theatre’s today, I just may have to take the grandkids!