In this lively adventure comedy for girls, Abigail Breslin plays a motherless tomboy living on a secluded Fiji island with her animal pals and her father, a marine biologist (Gerard Butler). After ...

Nim’s Island bogs down a bit in the midsection with a subplot that seems to be more about the “do” than the derring-do, but the oft-cited phrase about becoming the hero of one’s own story is a mantra ...