The actors all put in a good job

So many tremendous qualities in a film that has a fairly mediocre script. The premise is particularly pretty fascinating and I'm shocked to see how ho-hum the story continues to be well into the second act. Shot in the Fontana Dam region near the Tennessee/North Carolina border the exterior scenes are striking.

Looking back on this movie 28 years after its release, it seems like more of a curiosity than anything else. Jodie Foster's performance is just downright strange. It's overacting taken to the max----but then, I guess that's what the part requires. Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson are believable in their roles. Even their fake southern accents are pretty good. The biggest problem here is plausibility. Jodie Foster is supposed to be a "wild child" who has lived her whole life in a remote cabin in the woods, with no human contact other than her late mother and sister. Yet she has perfect Hollywood teeth. The scene in which she goes into a pool hall and shows her breasts is also ridiculous. She's supposed to be terrified of people. This is one of those films in which you're constantly asking questions about the unlikely scenarios, but the filmmaker wants you to just accept what you're seeing. If you can do that, it's watchable. The premise is certainly interesting.

Effective, but do feel like that it left some unanswered questions... Jodie Foster, as always; is mesmerising! Not necessarily a must-see, but it's touching!

So astonishingly vapid and bad it will leave you breathless with laughter.

The central flaw of the movie—which undercuts Foster's bravura performance and exemplifies the ham-fisted, shallow approach of the screenplay—is that Nell would have been raised by and would have mirrored herself after her aphasic mother for nearly 30 years, so any pretense towards her being a feral tabula rasa is unfounded.

Excellent acting. great story. Very well done

This movie was not enjoyable. It was dry and the plot lacks some depth. I'd rather go for a long walk.

If you don't read the rest of this review, let me say first that good actors and good directing does not always make for a good film especially if the screen play is poorly written. A lot of it reminded me of a more human version of E.T. to be honest. The way Liam Neason's character responds to numerous situations is pretty unrealistic. At one point he shakes the hand and apologizes to a news reporter that trespasses on Nell's land and does a little breaking and entering in her home. And apparently the only alternative to a news helicopter hovering just outside her front door (also ridiculous) is to take her to a scary hospital. I guess there were no good people willing to take her in back in 1994?...And I won't even begin with some of the cheesy dialogue that you must accept as her own dialect throughout the movie. Jodie Foster's performance wasn't bad, but 1994 must've been a slow year I guess.

Powerful story and Foster is absolutely fantastic.

Great performances and a touching story about personal interactions, loss, and growth.

Liam Neeson, Jodie Foster, and the late Natasha Richardson director Michael Apted of 'World is Not Enough' and 'Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader' fame adapts the stage play Foster plays a woman in the woods whom is socially inept, uneducated, completely oblivious to the outside world, and only talks in her own made up language she lost her mother and her twin sister Neeson is a psychiatrist Dr. Jerome Lovell, Richardson is a psychology student Paula Olsen; both of them do a case study of this woman who resides in the wilderness without any living relatives when they decide to better understand her social behavior it's tough for them decide the better course of action is it up to Jerome and Paula to choose the kind of life this woman is living? should they intervene or leave her alone? is Nell better growing up in a labratory being observed or in her natural environment? this is all in consideration she doesn't know basic life skills, unfamiliar with modern technology, hasn't interacted with the outside world with radio, 온라인카지노추천, or telephone Foster amazingly plays the lead so troubled but so content, ecstatic but curious, confused but gleeful the more time Jerome and Paula spend with her the more they start to fully realize her lifestyle, perhaps institutionalizing her is far from the only option just because someone is mentally challenged or socially limited doesn't mean they're weak or insignificant, a person is still a person regardless of where they were brought up, each of us should have the choice to live happily and freely, sometimes it feels like we're trapped in these cycles going around and around, it's true as a people we have big things and know big things, we like to remain quiet and avoid contact more frequently if we consider something abnormal Foster is the best performance in the movie, the music is emotional, the scenery of Nell's home is breathtaking, and lets us know that we all have our own way of understanding things despite our social and mental limitations True the movie doesn't explore more about Nell's upbringing but all the actors are committed as an unusual family learning from one another

One of the best performances by Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson by far. Touching story. Very underrated.

Jodie Foster gives undoubtedly the worst performance ever put to film by a good actor. I mean, my goodness is she awful in this movie. Liam Neeson might even be worse. Probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen, I don’t know how I’ll ever forgive myself for watching this movie.

Great acting. Cool movie. I think “Momma” is a remake kind of.

I think this may be one of my very favorite movies! I was somewhat uncomfortable in the beginning with Jodie Fosters character being so differvent. You know, we all like normal. That's a whole lot of what this movie is about. I think it was a brilliant movie and for those who said it was "boring"...well to me, that speaks volumes about them rather than the movie. The characters were believable and acting was spot on. I like all of Liam Neesons movies but this is now my favorite by far.

It isn't so much that there is something blatantly wrong with it. I mean, I'm sure that this has an audience out there. Psychology aficionados, and/or speech pathologists, and/or people who like long emotional dramas, they might love it. I however personally found it boring.

Can see why this movie opened itself up to ridicule.

If you ever needed proof that Jodie Foster can act, then this is it. Beautifully acted, moving story and directed with craftsmanship.

A very interesting look into an isolated persons psychology, and Jodie Foster pulls it off pretty well.