Goofs for
Nim's Island (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Factual errors: The characters refer to a tropical storm as a "Monsoon" when they should be calling it a "Typhoon" (or more accurately, as they are in the South Pacific, a "Cyclone").
  
  
• Factual errors: Alex takes a small plane to Rarotonga. The island of Rarotonga has an airport that can land a 747. There are direct flights from Hawaii and New Zealand. The only small airplane flights are to/from smaller neighboring islands.
  
  
• Factual errors: There is no such thing as a "Southern Borealis". They probably mean Aurora Australis.
  
  

• Factual errors: It is unlikely that the small plane Alex took could have reached Rarotonga, as it would be too long a flight from Borneo.
  
  
• Factual errors: The depiction of Rarotonga as a primitive "native" island is very patronising. It is far more developed than that - the airport can even take jumbo jets. Also, they would never give coconuts to arriving tourists - they are considered so mundane, that they are used as pig food.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Nim is often shown "hunting and pecking" at her keyboard but at one moment she is typing furiously without looking at her fingers.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening montage, Nim is seem swimming underwater with the cloth bandage on her leg she is not supposed to have until she hurts her leg later in the film.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster) is flying from San Francisco to Raratonga (Cook Islands) via Borneo (Kalimantan in Indonesia). It is very unlikely to happen because between San Francisco and Borneo the airplane will have well passed the Cook Islands. The nearest international airport that may take her to Cook Islands is Nadi in Fiji (South Pacific) and from there can fly to Cook Islands via Air Pacific. Borneo is in the South Asia region. So it is crazy enough to transit in Asia while the destination is in the South Pacific island.
  
  

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