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The Odd Life of Timothy Green

2012

Peter Hedges

Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Ron Livingston ...

5.6

3,931

Fantasy. Drama A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

	Author	Review
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' is Disney's formula flawlessly executed (...) a peculiar fable that touches universal emotions (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Odd Life of Timothy Green,' a warm and lovely fantasy, is the kind of full-bodied family film being pushed aside in favor of franchises and slam-bang confusion (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"With just the right dose of magic and no shortage of sentiment, this inspirational parenting tale from writer-director Peter Hedges plays like 'Mary Poppins' in reverse"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"What mars 'Timothy Green' most is its middle-of-the-road approach. Its appealingly quirky, fairy-tale-like center is so coated with sugar, it cloys. It’s not that 'Timothy Green' is odd, but that it isn’t odd enough (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The ghastliness of this damp and squishy comedy is the byproduct of a confused and earnest sentimentality, a willful devotion to wide-eyed wonder that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness"	NEG

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