Movie Review of "The Odd Life of Timothy Green"

Movie Review of "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," a Disney movie.

This was a very moving and emotional movie, for sure.  The young couple (the Greens) are unable to have a baby and try everything and are very sad.  They accept their fate and go home for one last time and decide to brainstorm what kind of child their child would have been.  They write it on little pieces of paper and bury the papers in a wooden box in the garden.  During a special rain storm which only blankets their area (the rest of the area is caught in a drought) a boy appears and they name him Timothy Green.

They try to be good parents and love the boy but make some common mistakes.  He reaches out to others with a love and kindness and friendship that is so pure that it is somehow refreshing.  He has leaves on his legs and these leaves figure into the whole point of his life.  A slightly older girl befriends him and together they develop a special leaf garden.  The leaves also suggest a special invention that could save the town which is doomed to lose its pencil factory where his parents and most of the town work.

The movie is not meant to be sad or maudlin but it does suggest that even when parents are doing the best they can, their expectations for their children may not always be realistic or be the best.  The parents learn.  The grandparents learn.  The cousins learn.  The whole town learns.  The people at the adoption agency learn.  We learn if we listen and learn to care.

This is a great movie.  The ending is predictable, but oh, so sweet.  We loved it and it reminded us of our oldest son and the heady days when he joined our family by adoption.  You will not be disappointed.