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Opens Aug 15The Odd Life of Timothy Green operates according to a simple metaphor. A couple who wants to have children and can?t conceive plants their wishes in a backyard garden. Cue a stroke of Disney magic, and the perfect little boy, Timothy (C.J. Adams), emerges from the mud in the middle of the night. He is there to sort out all of their problems ? father Jim Green (Joel Edgerton?s) troubles at the factory and his strained relationship with his father, and mother Cindy Green?s (Jennifer Garner) own work-based bumps and prickly competitive relationship with her sister ? before he returns to the ground from which he came.
There?s potential here to say something about what it means to be a parent, or how children can teach their parents perspective. Timothy is the other, the unexpected, the thing you love but cannot possess. The problem is The Odd Life of Timothy Green is so awash in sentimentality that all its efforts to teach us about life merely deliver corny and canned clich?. This emphatic emotionalism turns the film?s simple metaphor into something more cynical and irrelevant: the perfect little boy so divorced from reality he hardly has anything to say at all. His short life is just one frolic in the forest. One of the great life lessons Timothy teaches his parents comes when they have to overcome their disappointment when their son didn?t score a game winning goal in a soccer game. As his parents moan and groan from the sidelines you get the sense that The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a picture of the child as designer product, and this is a lesson about overcoming buyer?s remorse.
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