The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Plot synopsis:
The film is told from the perspective of Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), as they explain their experience with Timothy (CJ Adams) in an effort to persuade an adoption agency to allow the couple to adopt a child.
Cindy, who works in the town's local museum, and Jim, who is employed at the town's historic pencil factory, reside in the drought-stricken town of Stanleyville, North Carolina, self-labeled as "the pencil capital of the world". The Greens are informed by doctors that they are unable to conceive. Distraught by the news, Jim convinces Cindy to dream up their ideal child and write the child's characteristics and life events on slips of notepad paper.
The couple place the notes inside a wooden box and bury it in their backyard garden. After an immediate thunderstorm, which seemingly affects only their property, a ten-year-old arrives at their home claiming the Greens as his parents. After finding the box they buried smashed to pieces around a large hole in the ground where they originally buried it, and finding the boy inside their house, covered in mud, they realize that the boy, named Timothy, is actually a culmination of all their wishes of what their child would be. The Greens also discover that Timothy has a startling feature: he has leaves growing on his legs, which he can only cover up by wearing long tube socks.
The next day, at a family picnic, Timothy is introduced to members of his family: Brenda Best (Rosemarie DeWitt), Cindy's pompous sister; James Green Sr. (David Morse), Jim's estranged father; and Mel (Lois Smith) and Bub (M. Emmet Walsh), Cindy's paternal aunt and uncle. The parents take Timothy to their friend and town botanist, Reggie (Lin-Manuel Miranda), where they learn that Timothy's leaves cannot be removed.
Timothy begins to attend school, where he meets Joni Jerome (Odeya Rush), a girl he encounters during a bullying incident, with whom he begins a friendly relationship. Meanwhile, the town's pencil factory, the largest employer in Stanleyville, begins laying off its employees. Timothy convinces Cindy and Jim to design a prototype for a new pencil in an effort to keep the pencil-producing business viable.
Unbeknownst to the parents, one of Timothy's leaves falls off each time he fulfills one of the qualities listed on the original slips of paper. Timothy eventually reveals to Cindy and Jim that his time of existence is short and that he will eventually disappear. During another intense thunderstorm, he vanishes from their house.
The Greens' meeting with the adoption counselor concludes with Cindy presenting a letter that Timothy left them before leaving. In the letter, he explains to them what he did with each of his leaves that fell off, with a montage sequence showing each person whose life Timothy touched. After an unspecified amount of time, the adoption counselor is shown pulling up to the Greens' house in a car with the little girl who is to become the Greens' daughter, Lily.

Tags: cute, fantasy, flashback

Review:
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a great family movie to see, and it really gives you that warm feeling when you leave the theater..
By all means, this should had been a great, entertaining and heartfelt, modern fairy tale, for the whole family to enjoy but the movie handles certain themes poorly and make some odd choices with its story at times.And honestly, I still foremost really liked the movie.
Although this movie is not much of a box office success, due to the heavy load of drama, sensitivity and all the mushy-mushy stuff, I still say it is nice to see things go well sometimes, makes you feel that the world is not that bad.Walt Disney still brings a little magic into our lives trying to make you feel the world is not that much of a sad place.
Peter Hedges the director and co-writer of the film did a nice job with this movie, which doesn't have lots of special effects but delivers the hallmark family fun that Disney is known for, Peter finds a way to draw your sensitivity out and make you develop an emotional attachment to the characters from the movies first scene of parents struggling to have a child to when a naked kid shows up and then all the way till the end.The odd life of Timothy green is about a couple Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton), who couldn't have children.
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!
When you feel like you know the story and the characters then that means you watched a great film.
¨Please don't ask about my leaves.¨ I'm generally a fan of Disney family movies and don't mind when they get overly sentimental or extremely sweet as long as the characters have depth and the story rings authentic.
It was like if they were in a rush to tell the story and they never stopped to focus on the relationships that were being built.The film begins by introducing us to a young couple from Stanleyville (the pencil capital of the world) who is trying to adopt a kid.
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are being interviewed in order to see if they are qualified and thus they begin to narrate the story about the boy who changed their lives: Timothy.
He inspires and changes the lives of Jim and Cindy forever.As much as I wanted to like this family friendly movie I couldn't.
They are relating their magical experiences with Timothy Green to the counselors.Having been told by their fertility doctor that they cannot have children, they decide that night to write down all the wonderful qualities they would have liked their child to have.
Odd Life of Timothy Green is a rare gem out there for a clever storyline that can be funny, sad, and uplifting at the same time.Without giving too much away, Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a couple who have tried to have a child unsucessfully until one night, a son appears....from the garden?!?
The Odd Life Of Timothy Green is a movie that wanted to show how magical life would be if you are a parent but, there was no magic to this film.
Shortly after the beginning of the movie, we are taken to a scene in a doctor's office where Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are told that even though they have been trying, they might never be able to conceive a child.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)*** 1/2 (out of 4) Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a married couple who learn they can't have children.
People see Disney and I guess they expect children movies and while there's nothing in this film that would be too harmful for kids, I think the target audience is going to be grown ups.
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN is a cute, charming, funny and at times incredibly sad film that has a lot of imagination working for it.
"The Odd Life of Timothy Green" is a charming little movie that is better than most of the detritus that comes out of theaters in August.
That said, it didn't stay with me after I saw it.The movie opens with a couple (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) cautioning an adoption agency that they do have previous experience, but the story they are about to tell is going to hard to believe.
Jim and Cindy Green(Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner) a happily married couple living in a small town, but are unable to have children.
With a decent cast including Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Ron Livingston, and Dianne Wiest will they be able to deliver an entertaining movie that will speak to the audience or end up needing to be planted back in the garden?
The Odd Life of Timothy Green follows a married couple who are dying to start a family, but when things just aren't working out they began to dream about what their child would be like.
The film made me feel good and it made me laugh and there was some nice performances and a wonderful idea which they failed to develop and instead took the easy route with lazy writing and simplistic direction.There were points where I was so invested in the story that I became angry and shouted at the screen for such obvious plot holes and dumb writing.
I awarded this film a reluctant 7 (good) but I wanted to give it a perfect 6.5 (above average) though I thought it deserved more than an average 6 which I have awarded to films I describe as OK or passable but once we get to 5 it is a lost cause.I only awarded it a higher mark than it deserved because by the end it is a feel good film with some bitter sweet old school narrative but at times it felt like it was written by a ten year old boy but a talented one 'who rocks, shoots the winning goal and has his mothers heart'..
after reading some of the reviews for this film i was left feeling unsure about whether i wanted to watch it or not but my love for Jennifer garner and Joel Edgerton influenced me to take a chance and it did not disappoint!
The Odd Life Of Timothy Green was the kind of movie that can make you laugh and cry, it was truly a magical and utterly heart warming story.
Odd Life of Timothy Green is a rare gem out there for a clever storyline that can be funny, sad, and uplifting at the same time.Without giving too much away, Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a couple who have tried to have a child with any success until one night, a son appears....from the garden?!?
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is the story of a couple who desperately want to be parents and who cannot conceive, they therefore write down all the qualities they would like in a child and he miraculously materializes from their garden with leaves on his ankles as proof he was grown from the ground.
It was a sweet story and Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) makes it very clear that there is an underlying sadness that accompanies wanting a child and not being able to have one.
I was quite thrilled to check out 'The Advengers' recently, then I saw The Odd Life of Timothy Green which has a boy and a couple, spoofed off of the film 'A Troll in Central Park' and I was quite disappointed it had nothing but cheesy dialogue.I wouldn't say the movie was one of these "suspenseful films" but it had me typing for more that some scenes in the movie were just too bitter for me.I have to walk out of the theater pondering, okay, what is up with all this talk about satire?
Man, that boy was annoying, for trying to meddle with things all the time.All I wanted to say was "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" had a boy too clueless for me, I can't exact his age but this film was a bit trashy.Avoid it, please..
The acting was OK for what it was as a movie, but Jennifer Garner needs to start picking better scripts or she will end up like Nicolas Cage.I wonder if the book was better..
Its a sweet, family friendly movie though with a theme that forces the viewer to just go with it as it enters into fantasy land.Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton play a couple struggling to conceive who are finally told by their doctor that it is not to be.
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are looking to adopt and recounter their life with Timothy.
This looked like it would be a really fun and magical family oriented movie, and in some ways it was, but at the end it was just missing something.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) is a film that is most suited for one of those lazy afternoons, evenings, or nights when one simply wants to snuggle up on the couch and watch something slow and heartwarming, but not overwhelming.It is predictable, as many other reviewers have made clear, but also emotional.
Even without trying to be critical, one is often able to guess the upcoming event in the plot line, but Timothy Green is still effectively a sweet character that is the center of a touching story.Some reviewers have indicated their puzzlement about the intended audience for The Odd Life.
'THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)A comedic fantasy-drama film about a couple who can't have children of their own who will a child to life through wishes that they write down and bury in a box in their backyard.
Yes, you've guessed it my friends, my latest review is on the latest kid movie The Odd Life of Timothy Green starring Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton and CJ Adams.
CJ had a natural cuteness that will make the girls go wild, and his childlike innocence make his shyness more realistic, relatable, and magical to help the movie continue to come alive.The Odd Life of Timothy Green is not just about acting though, as there are plenty of other qualities that make this movie worth a try.
v=oCInbIDpNHgThe main story of this movie, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, by Disney, is about "love" — and I love this movie and can't wait to watch it again.Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner play Mr. and Mrs. Green, who are trying to have a baby.
Later that night, there is a strange thunder storm and it starts to rain — only at their house — and all the things that they wanted in their child come true because a child pops out of the dirt and is named Timothy.The main characters in this movie are Jim and Cindy Green, Timothy Green and Joni.
a lesson learned that the universe gives you from what you love the most(the garden), and that giving up is not an option, you might give up, only to find out that you are just a step away from getting what you were forever searching for.The wisdom that Timothy has as a child is one that our kids nowadays need to have, the courage that he portrait and not giving his parents a heads-up on what will happen as time passes, is just supper cool.i don't mind watching the movie time and time again.
Suddenly, a pre-teen boy who calls himself Timothy (C.J. Adams) appears and calls Cindy and Jim, Mom & Dad. But while they're glad to have a child, he has some things that make him a bit different...I'll stop there and just say that I enjoyed this heartwarming movie despite some parts that seemed either too pat or not believable enough but still, it's heart is in the right place and I was surprised this was originally created by Ahmet Zappa, the late Frank Zappa's son.
Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are typical parents who only want the best for their newly sprouted son Timothy (CJ Adams).
This movie was beautiful.I was captured from the getgo the whole plot from where it starts till where it ends.The message in the movie is also very good and we should take it to heart.I love Disney movies in general their just so light and fluffy and some are very inspirational .The performances as usual was great especially Jenifer Garner as Cindy green and Cj Adams as timothy greenIf you haven't seen it yet you have to watch it now you wont be disappointed and its good family fun and if you have a heart you will shed a tear at the end of the movie..
'A lovable boy with leaves on his legs!' At first I though the film wasn't going to be that good because I didn't really like the title of the film, but to my surprise the film was better then what I thought and had my hooked in the whole way though.Overall I rate the film as a sad family film because to me it hit close to the heart and it makes you fell like your a massive part to the story, and towards the end you are near enough 100% emotional attached to the film and the lovable characters!I have got to so a massive well done to Disney for another great film that has the entertainment, interesting plot and plays with our emotions!.
When it does though, none of them are prepared or know how to react.One can make as they please with the story line; yes it is a fantasy, but it nonetheless remains one of the better feel-good movies that have come out recently.Whilst it does not rise above the charming/pleasant film, still it could tempt some of the audience to tears..
This child has everything they wanted in their kid and also leaves on his feet.First of all The Odd Life of Timothy Green is not as bad as critics say that is.
The Odd Life of Timothy GreenOne way to end the recessive baldness gene in your family is to adopt an orphan with a thick, full head of hair.However, the couple in this fantasy got a son with more than hair growing out of him.One night as they lament their inability to conceive, Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim (Joel Edgerton) craft a list of the qualities their child would have, and bury it in the garden.The next morning 10-year-old Timothy (CJ Adams) appears in their home, covered in mud, calling them mom and dad.Instinctively, Cindy bathes the child, whereupon she discovers foliage sprouting from his shins.That day fourth, Timothy's true intentions are slowly revealed.Although it's well intentioned, The Odd Life of Timothy Green often slips into schmaltzy territory, thanks to the antics of the creepy childless couple.Besides, who needs to wish for a child when there are baby boxes?
Maybe, with magic and a little luck, you wouldn't have to.Cindy and Jim Green (played by Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) are a married couple who live in the drought- stricken town of Stanleyville and who struggled to have a child of their own until their doctor told them they were infertile.
Okay,so this movies is about this couple who can't have children but one day they discover that a boy grew in their garden and they decide to adopt him.At first this may sound pretty harmless,but trust me,it's not!First let me tell you the thing which bothers me the most at this movies-the parents are awful,they barely interact with Timothy,they won't appreciate him unless he comes out as a winner in the front of their families and bosses and they won't even let him have any friends!I really can't blame this on the actors,hell even the kid tried his best,but this script is so dumb and the worst part is:the parents didn't learn anything from this experience!I'm not kidding,they even tell the adoption center that they didn't really learn from their mistakes but will make new mistakes instead!And still,the adoption center gives them a kid!Seriously people,I do understand that you have a different opinion,but I really don't get what's so heartwarming about this movie,it says that bad parents should be allowed to have kids too as long as they will do different mistakes,not learn from their previous ones!.
What I got was a film that couldn't decide what it wanted to be.We open with Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton) sitting in an office at an adoption agency.
The Odd Life Of Timothy Green is a 2012 fantasy and tales the tale of a childless couple played by Jennifer Garner in her Disney debut and Joel Eggerston who both work with dealing with pencils and they would love to have a child but struggle to have one until one night they write a bunch of stuff and put it in a box and dig it under ground.
This is what I would call a "feel good" movie that doesn't leave you feeling so great."The Odd Life of Timothy Green" tries very hard to give viewers an emotional and entertaining experience.