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Brilliant and touching

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Cindy and Jim form a lovely couple but a deep problem keeps them aside from true happiness: they cannot have a child. Decided to put an end to this terrible pain, they bury a box in the garden which contained all their wishes for a baby to have. Very soon, to their amazement, they find a real but also strange boy lurking around the house. This is the moment they've been dreaming for a long time but they are really not prepared for what's about to come.It's an interesting story of an odd boy, but with some special talents, who's about to influence and change a lot of lives in his existence. It's thrilling, dramatic but also a bit funny sometimes. Unfortunately a bit too dramatic for my taste (especially the finale) and not as profound as I would have hoped (some moments were superficially taken care of and a lot of events seemed more like a parody rather than a serious act which would have been more appropriate). Overall, it's a good and enjoyable movie, especially if you're a more sensitive kind of person.

I enjoyed this for the most part, the cast is very likable and the story was interesting but as the movie progressed it did become overly sentimental and a bit cliché. 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. Devastated they drink a bottle of wine and make a list of all the qualities their child would/might have had, and bury it in their garden as a form off moving on. That night their hopes & dreams give birth to a curious 10 year old boy who magically emerges from the mud. He immediately calls them mom and dad and they except him and the leaves mysteriously growing from his legs without question.The script is fairly thin after that but helped along by a cute CJ Adams as Timothy who does a great job. Garner and Edgerton also give their best as well as David Morse as the over achieving grandpa, Common (?!) as the soccer coach and Ron Livingston as a sort of bad guy at the pencil factory. Its definitely a feel good movie with a fairytale style story. Its sweet interesting, and tugs at your heart strings but in a very obvious way. 12/13/15

The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a beautiful, sweet story of a childless couple who reap the benefits - and unintended consequences - of wish fulfillment. It's framed as a fantasy, but it is leavened with dollops of honesty, education, and wonder.Jim (Joel Edgerton) and Cindy (Jennifer Garner) Green have been trying, trying, trying to have a baby. Their fertility doctor informs them that despite all of their efforts, the couple simply cannot conceive. Devastated, Cindy wants them to accept the facts and just move on, but Jim cannot let go. His coping mechanism is for each of them to write some attribute that they believe their child would have had (based on themselves) on pieces of notepaper, put the papers into a wooden box, and bury the box in the backyard garden. This they do, and during a highly unusual thunderstorm that night, they discover an unusual young boy in their house, muddy and wet - and with leaves on his lower legs.His name is Timothy, and he calls Jim and Cindy "Mom" and "Dad." At first, Jim and Cindy believe young Timothy to be a runaway - but the leaves on his legs and the big hole in their garden lead them to suspect otherwise. And so, after so much time spent anxiously wishing for a baby of their own, the couple is now thrust full speed into the realm of parenthood. And I do mean full speed, for the very next morning various family members arrive for an outdoor party that apparently our two adults have forgotten all about.Through Timothy, we meet the gang. Jim's dad Big Jim (David Morse) is the sort of smug, arrogant guy that most people take an instant dislike to; conversely, Cindy's Aunt Mel (Lois Smith) and Uncle Bub (M. Emmet Walsh) are the very picture of a lovely older couple. Then there's Cindy's sister Brenda (Rosemarie DeWitt) and her husband Franklin (Ron Livingston), who happens to be Jim's boss at the local pencil-manufacturing plant. Brenda and Franklin famously natter on about their overachieving three-kid brood, something that consistently rankles Cindy.Timothy's effect on everyone around him is noticeable. Much like Pollyanna, the glad girl, Timothy seems to make everyone happy, even the cranky sorts like Big Jim. But yes, he is a bit of an oddity, and poor Jim and Cindy are torn between raising a so-called normal child and allowing Timothy to be himself. That does sound treacly, like an Afterschool Special. But somehow, it's not. We don't know where Timothy came from. We don't know why he has leaves on his legs and what they may signify. Those things aren't important to this story, because this is really a tale about not having all of the answers and doing the best anyway. In other words, it's about making mistakes and learning from them.The movie also provides such a great perspective on being a parent (and I say this as a non-parent); Jim and Cindy are bewildered, beset by the ghosts of parents past and present. They try too hard, as one might expect from new parents. Never is this more evident than when Timothy finds himself on the school's soccer team (coached by rapper Common). Yes, they become soccer parents. And Timothy is not some savior who magically makes everything come out just grand. He knows who or what he is, but he is not infallible. In fact, there are many, many things he doesn't know (for example, how to swim).I really appreciated the ending. Yes, it's sad and bittersweet, but it's so packed with emotion that the effect is very powerful indeed. Garner and Dianne Wiest, who plays Cindy's boss, are both excellent, and young CJ Adams (seen in the most recent Godzilla adaptation) is stunning.

This is one of the best and most touchy movies i have seen. 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. excellent work you did, with the movie.from the producer we are anticipating more of such movies.