- Best Known for the Fanservice: For some years after this came out, Google searches on "Nell film" or "Nell movie" tended to autocomplete with "Jodie Foster naked" because so many people had looked that up. While she does have a couple of nude scenes, the ambience is otherworldly mystery. Her lake baths are where she connects most powerfully with her dead twin, including their ritual gestures of love. The audience is aware of this, but the doctors are not and Paula's "Look... at... that" is awestruck.
- Values Dissonance: Look at the story from Nell's perspective. She's just lost her mother, and now has to deal with strangers who repeatedly invade her home without knocking (Billy Fisher at least knocked when he came in), subject her to painful medical tests and install cameras in every room of her house. That she comes to understand Jerry as a guardian angel and believes the two strangers mean well just adds to the Alien Abduction ambience, especially when they take her away to Dr. Paley's mental hospital.
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