Michael Apted directs this intense, distaff version of Truffaut's earlier Wild Child. She's been so cut off from civilization that, over the years, she's developed her own form of language.īut when two doctors (Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson) 'discover' Nell, her life – and theirs – will never be the same again. Nell (Jodie Foster) lives alone in the backwoods and hollows of a particularly remote stretch of North Carolina. The judge decides they get three months to observe her in the forest, after which he'll decide about Nell's future.Ġ1April 2010 «Nell» is a 1994 drama. But Paula, a psychology student, wants her observed in a laboratory. He's fascinated by her, since she speaks a mangled language, developed by her sister and herself growing up, 'twin speak' if you will. After her mother's death, she's discovered by the local doctor Jerome. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Seemingly indecipherable language is in fact English, based partly on her mother's. The only people she knew were her mother and twin sister.Ĭomments are disabled for this video. Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world.
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