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The film tells about Homer Wells, an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage. Homer is returned twice by foster parents; his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him.
Mr. Irving remains a disturbingly facile spinner of yarns in which the most sordid facts of life are glossed over into comfortably didactic homilies about the innate goodness of people. Yet, I was somehow moved...
A softer, kinder version of John Irving's book, which was edgier and more critical, though you can't blame the filmmakers since Irving himself adapted his novel.