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The movie centers on a happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green, who can't wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like. One day, they bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, young Timothy shows up on their doorstep one stormy night.
It's hard to believe that Hedges once wrote some decent light fiction (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, An Ocean in Iowa) before he started making greeting-card movies like Dan in Real Life and this one.
From director and writer Peter Hedges comes a wonderful tale about the power of intention, being careful of what you wish for, self-acceptance, love, loss, and new beginnings.
"There comes a point where "Odd Life of Timothy Green" is just too sentimental and too odd."
August 16, 2012
Miami Herald
A fable about parenting and its accompanying joys and sorrows, done in the trademark Walt Disney style of pleasant, feel-good entertainment that doesn't leave much of an emotional trace.
Likely to please younger audiences who will find the simple, fairy story style arc comfortingly familiar and the central protagonist quirkily relatable.