Nell

Have any of you seen the movie Nell with Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, and Natasha Richardson? It is an older movie, but it is so good. I remember watching it a few times on TV with my dad when I was younger. For some reason the movie had popped into my head a few days ago and I had a craving to watch it. My roommate had never seen it so we rented it and watched it together. If you have not seen this movie I recommend that you do! It is so good and it really pertains to this class because it is all about language. Nell is about a woman (maybe in her twenties?) who has grown up completely isolated from the world. She was raised in the woods with her mother and twin sister. Her mother was paralyzed on one side of her face which made her speech almost unrecognizable. I don't want to say anymore about the movie because I do not want to ruin it for those of who have never seen it. The only other thing I am going to say about it is that Nell has her own language since she was never taught proper English. It is fascinating to watch how a doctor and a psychologist team together to observe and try to understand Nell. Go rent this movie right now!

I do want to warn you that there is a bunch of nudity so if you have kids you should probably not have them watch this movie with you. I was completely shocked! I have seen this movie on TV lots of times, but they had edited out the nudity parts so I had no idea it was in there. It is not in a sexual way. Nell just doesn't know that it is socially inappropriate to be naked. I just wanted to warn you though. : )

Does anyone know of any other movies like this? I would love to watch them.