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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 6293
Released: February 3, 2004 |
| Our Price: $4.09 |
| Used Price: $4.25 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When doctor Jerry Lovell (Liam Neeson, Oscar - nominee for "Schindler's List") discovers a young woman living alone in the backwoods of North Carolina, he is intrigued by her erratic behavior and unique pattern of speech. Together with a psychologist (Natasha Richardson), Lovell determines to pierce Nell's private world and protect her from the courts - and a life of scientific study. In a race against time and a system bent on shattering her spirit, he finds that the woman whose way of life he has sought to protect, has transformed his own forever.
Description of Nell:
This film is an intelligent examination of an easygoing doctor (Liam Neeson at his teddy bear best) and his discovery of Nell (Oscar nominee Jodie Foster), a woman who was raised in the woods with no human contact except her speech-impaired mother. The movie covers a familiar "fish out of water" story unlocking Nell's soul (by deciphering her incomprehensible language) and then taking her into the modern world. What makes Nell special is the earnest work by Neeson, Natasha Richardson (as an uptight psychologist), and a rich, small array of supporting members (journeyman Nick Searcy as the town sheriff is marvelous). At its center is another extraordinary job by Foster, who also produced. Director Michael Apted (Thunderheart) brings his regular load of realism into the picture, set aglow by luscious camerawork (by Dante Spinotti) in the hills of North Carolina. Through lyrical speech and gesture, Foster makes you believe she's in another woman's body, akin to Jeff Bridges's work in Starman, a marvelous sight to behold that powers the movie. Written by William Nicholson (Shadowlands) and Mark Handley, based on Handley's play Idioglossia. --Doug Thomas
Nell Reviews:
Brilliant 
2008-11-29 - This movie offers some very important lessons: acceptance, understanding, communication, how judging others can nurture or destroy those being judged. A brilliant study of human character. A more than brilliant performance by Jodie Foster as Nell.
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2008-10-14 - The quality on the dvd I got was great. I would recommend amazon to anyone.
"Nell," a classic which needs to be viewed by all.
2008-08-29 - "Nell" is a movie that all should watch at some time. It shows the reasons why we fear the unknown and how we should accept all that we come into contact with. The acting is superb and makes each a believer in tolerance for the humanity in our lives.
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2008-07-10 - I enjoyed watching Nell again every bit as much as I enjoyed it the first time. Still emotionally moving!!! Jodi Foster was great!!!
LOL
2008-06-09 - I give this movie four stars because it is so unintentionally hilarious.
Jodie foster plays the daughter of an Appalachian stroke victim that fills her day running around in the woods, communing with nature, and playing dress-up with her dead sister's remains. When her mother finally kicks the bucket, two protagonists are fascinated buy her mangled tard-speak and child-like innocence. The friendly neighborhood psychologist wants to observe her in a lab while the gentle country doctor wants to go all Gorillas in the Mist and observe her bathing in her own filth in the woods. The story ends with Nell making a 'heartfelt' speech (done entirely in Hutese) that convinces the judge to release her back into the wild as to spare the towns folk from her paint-chip eating ways. It closes with Nell having a picnic, playing ring around the rosie with a little girl, a dead raccoon (named UUURGH GO BAH-GNNN!!), and her twin sister's femur.
The movie loses a star because Jodie Foster gets naked D:
