Skype has gone Hollywood.

In a new movie, Nim’s Island an 11-year-old Robinson Crusoe stranded on a remote South Pacific island gets a boost from Skype.

Film critic Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer said the lead character, Nim (Abigail Breslin, of Little Miss Sunshine), “flourishes on a remote South Pacific isle with her father, Jack (Gerard Butler), a marine biologist. Lonely? Not Nim, whose menagerie includes a cuddly sea lion, a chatty bearded dragon, and an ESP-gifted pelican. Equipped with satellite dishes, her island has full wireless Internet and Skype capabilities.”

Rickey said during most of the film, “Nim is alone on the island, with her father marooned at sea.” Nim uses technology to stay in touch with the outside world via “agoraphobic adventure novelist Alex Rover (Jodie Foster).”

The critic only gave the movie 2 ½ stars. But maybe Skype still has a shot at a Tinseltown career.