My Rating. Simon Birch was born no bigger than a man's fist. Doctors said that he wouldn't live through his first night, or that he would not live more than a week. He did. As he grew older he believed God had a special plan for him and it was His plan to make Simon the way he is.
Simon's friend Joe is on a mission of his own. He one-ups Joe in physical comparisons, though he goes for the smaller instead of the superior.
He accepts playing the Baby Jesus because he is the only student who will fit in the crib. And he rides in a wooden Coca-Cola crate rigged up as a sidecar to Joe's bike. Ben Goodrich, the drama teacher played by Oliver Platt, begins to date Rebecca. Joe initially resents him, and Ben tries to win the boy over with goofy gifts and behaviors. During a baseball game Simon is given his first chance at swinging the bat instead of standing at the plate waiting for the guaranteed walk and he gets the first hit of his life, a foul ball that strikes and kills Rebecca Wentworth.
Joe does not hate Simon for this turn of events because he understands that Simon has also lost his mother figure in Rebecca, but Simon himself is racked with guilt and begs God for forgiveness.
Later that winter, while on a religious retreat, Simon proves himself when he risks his life to save a bus full of children which has crashed into a freezing lake. Simon Birch believes that God made him for a special, heroic purpose. Simon Birch is a natural ally. There are many different ways that I could show my faith, the biggest one to me is through prayer. Simon Birch is a American comedy-drama film loosely based on the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and written for the screen and directed by Mark Steven Johnson in his directorial debut.
Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca Ashley Judd , is keeping her lips sealed, no matter how much he protests.
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