We love to watch 'The Perils of Jodie'
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It must be tough being Jodie Foster. She always seems to be portraying women in trouble or trying to save others from danger.
Sure, Jodie Foster's won two Academy Awards (for "The Accused" and "The Silence of the Lambs"). Speaks fluent French. Graduated from Yale. Directed feature films. And scored numerous times at the box office.
But poor, poor Jodie. Moviegoers love seeing her play someone in peril. She's been raped several times in the movies, fought off thugs invading her house, scrambled around a plane with dogged determination in order to find her missing child and kicked more butt than Jackie Chan and Jet Li combined.
Even in her latest film, the family adventure "Nim's Island," which opens Friday, her character, novelist Alex Rover, finds herself thrust in several dangerous situations.
Here's a look at the "Perils of Jodie":
"Nim's Island"
The character: Adventure novelist Alex Rover
The peril: Life. Though Alex writes dashing adventure novels featuring an Indiana Jones-type hero, also named Alex Rover, she is actually a panic-stricken agoraphobic who spends her time holed up in her San Francisco apartment, where she eats only a particular brand of canned soups, obsessively uses hand sanitizer and becomes hysterical at the sight of a spider.
Alex is forced to leave the confines of her safe existence to help a little girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin), who lives on an isolated island paradise in the South Pacific with her biologist father (Gerard Butler), after Alex learns that Nim's father has been lost at sea. Alex must bring herself to get on a plane, endure a treacherous helicopter ride in a monsoon and steal a boat in order to make it to the island. And one more thing: She learns to eat worms.
"The Brave One"
The character: Erica Bain, a sophisticated New York radio talk-show host with a hunky doctor boyfriend (Naveen Andrews)
The peril: Sort of a "Jodie does 'Death Wish.' " In Neil Jordan's gritty thriller, Erica finds her perfect world destroyed after she is mugged and badly injured -- her boyfriend is murdered in the attack -- by a group of thugs in Central Park. Not being able to cope with the world outside of her apartment, she fears everyone and everything, so much so that she buys a gun and begins to practice at a shooting range. One late evening at a convenience store, she ends up killing a robber to save the life of his intended victim. Erica finds herself becoming addicted to her new role as vigilante killer.
"Flightplan"
