But boxes can’t hold everything precious. And even though both Jim and Cindy were horrible athletes, they dreamed that their child would—just once—score the winning goal. Jim is a foreman or some kind of middle manager at the pencil factory that is their town's main employer — but the pencil factory is in danger of closing. Timothy literally has no traits that weren't pre-inscribed for him. But we’re left to assume that some sort of power orchestrated his arrival, and Cindy admits that his appearance was “kind of miraculous.”. The one way in which Timothy Green seems to have a life of his own is that he's really into this one girl, who seems to be much older and has massive beestung lips and an intense gaze. While Timothy doesn’t seem to be subjected to violent bullying, schoolmates do smear food and ice cream on him, turning him into a walking sundae. Meanwhile, Cindy feels threatened by her sister, who never shuts up about her perfect overachieving children. The Odd Life of Timothy Green has sort of a creepy premise — a childless couple write down all of their fantasies about the child they'll never have, and bury them in a box in the backyard. Along with other kids, Timothy gets nailed with a dodgeball. There's something slightly disturbing about these two grown-ups getting a magic miracle child and using him to score points against their families, in a petty fashion. A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R. L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware. Timothy Green is the main protagonist of the 2012 live-action film, The Odd Life of Timothy Green. But often, we don’t give ourselves the same license. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Joni_Jerome?oldid=4188861. They go inside and up to bed, vowing to move on … tomorrow. A princess whose country has been invaded goes into hiding in Louisiana, where she has to learn to act like an ordinary teenager. (They're explicitly stated to be dating once or twice, plus the whole thing is portrayed as young love.). During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad. An adventurous young girl uses her imagination to escape her reality, that is quickly spinning out of reach. Your IP: 159.203.44.38 She decided to officially confront Joni and tell her that she doesn't want her to be with Timothy because she thought she would be a bad influence. Timothy and Joni (Odeya Rush) wind up spending a ton of time together, building a weird sort of leaf-cathedral-thingy in the woods. The Odd Life of Timothy Green has sort of a creepy premise — a childless couple write down all of their fantasies about the child they'll never have, and bury them in a box in the backyard. Creative, smart, kind, protective, gentle, pretty, understanding. This is someone's fantasy of a perfect kid, who never cries or has a tantrum. This film is a weirdly incoherent wish-fulfillment orgy, in which you get all the highlights of having a kid without most of the pain. We set them aside as precious to us, making sure they stay safe and secure. Abandoned? But before the sun rises, the Greens find a strange visitor lurking in their unused nursery: a 10-year-old boy in dire need of a bath. Without going into too many spoilers, Timothy has a better solution to the "factory in danger of shutting down" dilemma than a dozen management consultants could come up with. Jim feels like his own father, Big Jim, never supported him when he was a kid. But meanwhile, even though we see plenty of instances where Timothy's parents use Timothy for their selfish wish-fulfillment, the movie mostly gives them a pass. But this is a somewhat rarer movie where, instead of a man finding his ideal woman through a contrived set of circumstances, it's about a married couple finding their ideal child. A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Looking for something to watch? He also came from the garden one stormy night when it was raining. I won't burst the kids from school to go see this movie, but if you do catch it on TV gather the family around for a fun time. So Cindy tries to use Timothy to show that she can have a "special" kid too. (Yes, there's really a pencil museum. At the office of U.S. Timothy x Joni. Timothy can't be anything, or anyone, that his "parents" didn't write down and put in that box that they buried in their garden. “It’s a hard world to be different in,” Cindy tells him. And he is bullied and mocked. The difference between the two films is that Ruby Sparks embraces the creepiness of its premise, and dives into the ways that having your fantasies come true could be problematic. He’s like a pint-size Giving Tree, freely offering whatever he has to those around them—even though it sometimes costs him dearly. Timothy is a kind and loving 10-year-old boy. So in Odd Life of Timothy Green, Jim and Cindy Green are not just childless, but also kind of staring down a bit of a midlife crisis in general. Timothy Green. She is Timothy's friend and former girlfriend. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears. The Odd Life of Timothy Green is an odd but beautiful rumination on what it means to be a parent. Or fearing that you might not actually be special after all, you're just another ordinary grown-up: compromises, regrets and all. But Timothy is different. She decided to officially confront Joni and tell her that she doesn't want her to be with Timothy because she thought she would be a bad influence. Strong T Rating. The pictures we keep in our computers. Cynics might say that Timothy would be an easy kid to love, what with his parents essentially crafting their ideal child and planting it like a mustard seed. Jennifer Garner as Cindy Green; Joel Edgerton as Jim Green; CJ Adams as Timothy Green; Odeya Rush as Joni Jerome; Rosemarie DeWitt as Brenda Best; David Morse as James Green Sr.; Ron Livingston as Franklin Crudstaff; Dianne Wiest as Ms. Crudstaff. He's untainted by any previous set of parental figures, but can already speak in complete sentences and has been toilet-trained. It’s a double bonus that a film so much about family makes it easy for the whole family to watch together. Watching The Odd Life of Timothy Green, I kept being reminded of Ruby Sparks, which only just came out a few weeks ago. Inhaltsangabe: Cindy (Jennifer Garner) und Jim … Das wundersame Leben von Timothy Green ein Film von Peter Hedges mit Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton. Magical Place clip from The Odd Life of Timothy Green in UK cinemas April 5 2013 Disney presents The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a magical story about a young boy who teaches a married couple that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life's greatest gifts. In Odd Life, though, you sort of get to have it both ways. Written by Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. The Odd Life of Timothy Green will be released in UK cinemas April 5 2013. He falls in love, they become best friends. “Please don’t ask me about my leaves,” he somberly says. But our children themselves … they move on. They tell her that they need to use their appointment time to tell her their story, and the story of Timothy, even though she may not believe it. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. It merely acknowledges that being a mom or a dad is still more art than science—something we get better at as we go, and something that is utterly unaltered by whether your child is biologically linked to you or not. So Jim tries to use Timothy to show Big Jim what happens when you support your son and believe in him — and this involves putting lots of pressure on Timothy to be good at sports. She looks over their adoption forms, and asks why the section, “What qualifies you to be adoptive parents?” is blank. So actually, it's hard not to suspect that the gnawing anxiety at the heart of The Odd Life of Timothy Green isn't about loneliness or childlessness at all — rather, it's about feeling like a failure. For example, bullying is brought up in one super mild sequence, and then dismissed forever.). After receiving bad news from a fertility doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury their dreams of having a child by writing out all the great traits their child would have and putting them in a box in the garden. Teenage surfer Bethany Hamilton overcomes the odds and her own fears of returning to the water after losing her left arm in a shark attack. A kid gets injured during a soccer game. As you might expect from the premise, the movie gets pretty weepy at times (for both on-screen and off-screen parents), but it will remind families about the joy of being together and being each other's biggest … Rather beautifully, though, they come to embrace those mistakes. The Odd Life of Timothy Green We’re learning too—sometimes with them, sometimes even from them. Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. Jim desperately wants his son to succeed on the soccer field—not because it’d be good for Timothy (who’s happy just getting water for the team), but for Jim and his difficult relationship with his own father. They soon find out that young Timothy has leaves on his legs. The couple has done all they can to get pregnant but all to no avail, so they began to dream about what their child would be like, they wrote down all they wished he would be, achieve and become, placed it in a box and buried it in the backyard.One stormy night young Timothy (CJ Adams) shows up on their doorstep and calls them mum and dad.CJ Adams was exceptional in his task as Timothy Green, child actors seem to have a difficult role sometimes when they have to convince you, but CJ did a good job and I was impressed by his acting.As Adams plays young Timothy who sees life differently; hey! Just as the Greens’ garden grew a little boy, Timothy helps his parents grow into … parents. Jim and Cindy Green want a child. Cindy Green. Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Then they close the lid, dig a hole in their vegetable garden and lovingly plant their hope. During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad. And the result is both saccharine and kind of dull. It’s at that moment the two realize they’re three now—a growing family. But that misses the point, because Jim and Cindy didn’t ask for—or get—a perfect kid. Still, in the midst of boys sprouting between the cabbages and rutabagas, there’s a marvelous message Christians can embrace: All children are miraculous; all are gifts. A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap. Truth is, parents are just as imperfect as kids, and as much as we try to teach our children the paths to walk and the pits to avoid, we’re not just teaching them. In all of that the movie doesn’t undermine parental authority. Use the HTML below. Of all our precious things, they’re what we treasure most. He couldn’t have grown from their garden, could he? I'm not sure how old the actor playing Timothy Green is, but Odeya Rush is 15 years old in real life, and the fact that a 10-year-old is supposed to be dating a 15-year-old is one of the many things in this film that feels somewhat off-kilter. (And that's the biggest problem with Timothy Green in general — whenever there's a genuine source of conflict or tension, the movie avoids delving too deeply into it, for fear of losing its "sweet" and whimsical tone. Disney Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Someone tries to take credit for an invention of Jim and Cindy’s (but is caught doing so). A stuffy businessman finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat. (2012). And when they definitively hear from their doctor that conceiving one will be impossible, they grieve the loss.