Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Nell

This movie was recommended to me by a friend. I was kind of skeptical. The movie is a little slow going and a little odd. It is an interesting movie however. If you haven’t seen it and you’re ok with a not fast paced movie I would watch it. It is a pretty interesting story line about a girl raise by a mother who had a stroke and was never exposed to the outside world.

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Bensmom

Good movie.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2023

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Brother recommended it.

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Luthian

LOL

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2008

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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:

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Bob G.

Impressive Performance

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2016

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Impressive performance by Jodie Foster. Plausible story line in an "eva'dur" world for the survivor of a pair of twins born of a rape and partial paralysis of Nell's "civilization" avoiding mother. I empathize with the deceased at the outset of the story mother since I have chosen a similar loner lifestyle based on avoiding similar *evil doers*, albeit with no offspring to try to raise to anything like my own post graduate level of education. That empathy does not, however, rise to identification with the substance of the story which largely focused on the evil doers among whom Nell would have to survive in "civilization". Along with competent acting by the rest of the players, the film was well photographed and produced, worthy of a four star rating.

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Claudette

Jodie foster is an amazing actress in this film

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2022

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Everything was wonderful

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Rose L

Different.

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020

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Jodie Foster takes on a new kind of character. It was worth watching at the end but I had to will myself to sit through it at times. Jodie Foster was the draw.

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Susan Yates

I enjoy this movie

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2016

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I enjoy this movie; we've watched it year after year. It's a well acted, interesting movie with a premise different from most mainstream movies. As always, Jodie Foster knocks it out of the park.

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