Nell

Name: Nell
Genre: Drama
Released: December 23, 1994
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Heather M. Bomba, Jeremy Davies, Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Marianne E. Bomba

1994

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: December 23, 1994 | PG-13

Starring: Heather M. Bomba, Jeremy Davies, Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Marianne E. Bomba, Natasha Richardson, Nick Searcy, O'Neal Compton, Richard Libertini, Robin Mullins

Summary: In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

Director: Michael Apted

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 112 min

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Jay Boyar

With its delicate fabric, this film sometimes seems in danger of unraveling. But ultimately it holds together, partly due to Foster's fine, poignant performance and also because some of the characters surrounding Nell reflect aspects of her personality. [23 Dec 1994, p.23]

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This metaphor-movie is both touching and tasteful. It allows Foster to play scared and alone, traumatised and neurotic, and, most importantly, free and inspirational. Read full review

James Berardinelli

It is difficult to deny Nell's intelligence and sensitivity. We approach this story with the same fascination that Nell faces each day, seeing, if only for a short time, how different the world -- and people -- can be. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

There's something so charged and beautiful about Jodie Foster's performance as a Smoky Mountains wild child in Nell that it carries you past a lot of glossy bumps in the movie. [23 Dec 1994, p.C]

Jodie Foster, transcendent in the bravura title role, is far grander than the film itself, and her performance helps camouflage the weaknesses of its structure and the naivete of its themes.

Janet Maslin

What's remarkable is how seldom it delivers. For all its technical brilliance, not even Ms. Foster's intense, accomplished performance in the title role holds much surprise. Read full review

Gary Arnold

One gets the uneasy feeling that Jodie Foster is trying to tell us something that has nothing essential to do with Nell's plight. The movie is a coy, condescending vanity production. [25 Dec 1994, p.D6]

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Akilax

Aug 29, 2021

This movie was a really good show of acting talent. I felt like the main characters were really believable and the story was also well told.

I loved how the movie takes its time to tell the story, as the plot resonates well with that because it is what is needed to understand the issueThis movie was a really good show of acting talent. I felt like the main characters were really believable and the story was also well told.

I loved how the movie takes its time to tell the story, as the plot resonates well with that because it is what is needed to understand the issue around the main protagonist as well. I also really enjoyed, how the movie lets the protagonists make early assumptions that seem plausible at the time and show us how they are wrong or incomplete so that we arrive to new points of understanding together with the protagonists.

I recommend watching this movie.… Expand

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