Visible crew/equipment: When Alexandra is being harassed by the hagglers, she gets into a man's truck after he tells her he knows where to take her. As the truck drives out of the shot the camera is reflected in the window.
Nim's Island (2008)
Directed by: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jodie Foster, Abigail Breslin, Michael Carman
Continuity mistake: When Alexandra Rover is about to leave the apartment to go and help Nim, she is standing in front of the door debating if she can go or not (she is agoraphobic, afraid to leave her home). Notice that the baby chain is hooked to the door. Alex Rover (the imaginary adventure hero) is leaning against the wall telling Alexandra she can and must go help Nim and that she must turn the door knob. In the next scene, Alexandra turns the knob and opens the door. She never unhooked the baby chain, and Alex Rover is an imaginary character so he could not have unhooked it.
Factual error: Alex Rover travels from San Francisco in a large plane to Borneo, then a small plane to Rarotonga, then a small boat to Tuvalu, then a helicopter to the Buccaneer cruise ship (located close enough to Nim's Island at 20S-162W for her to row there). My globe shows these places to generally be too far from one another given the particular mode of transport. Borneo and Tuvalu are too far out of the way to fit with this story.
Nim Rusoe: Nobody invades my island and gets away with it.
Jack: What are you afraid of?
Alex Rover: Everything.
Jack: Be the hero of your own life story.
Alex Rover: Don't hand me that line - I wrote that line.
Question: I can't figure out why the lizard is screaming when he is flying through the air because I'm sure that lizards don't scream.
Chosen answer: Because it's funny.
Question: They may have answered this, but how does the island have plumbing, power, and Internet if it is remote and almost completely uninhabited?
Answer: Generator. It's shown several times during the film.
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Chosen answer: No. Gerard Butler plays Alex Rover because Nim imagines him looking like her father. Alexandra Rover sees him like that merely for the sake of consistency within the film.
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