Plot
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

Release Year: 2012

Rating: 6.2/10 (776 voted)

Critic's Score: 48/100

Director: Peter Hedges

Stars: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams

Storyline
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

Writers: Peter Hedges, Ahmet Zappa

Cast:
Jennifer Garner - Cindy Green
Joel Edgerton - Jim Green
CJ Adams - Timothy Green
Odeya Rush - Joni Jerome
Shohreh Aghdashloo - Evette Onat
Rosemarie DeWitt - Brenda Best
David Morse - James Green, Sr.
M. Emmet Walsh - Uncle Bub
Lois Smith - Aunt Mel
Lin-Manuel Miranda - Reggie
Dianne Wiest - Ms. Bernice Crudstaff
Ron Livingston - Franklin Crudstaff
James Rebhorn - Joseph Crudstaff
Common - Coach Cal
Michael Arden - Doug Wert

Taglines: He's a force of nature.

Details

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Release Date: 15 August 2012

Filming Locations: Albany, Georgia, USA

Did You Know?

Trivia:
Filmed in the same house as Halloween II.

User Review

Great, great movie!

Rating: 10/10

What a wonderful movie! Because you can read the summary, I will just tell you our reaction to it. We were lucky enough to receive tickets to a pre-release screening of this moving. We took the whole family, 5 boys ages 5-16, and my husband and myself. Everyone loved it. Even the 5 year old, and that is no small thing. This movie will make you laugh and cry and then laugh again. And the laughing moments range from chuckles to totally surprise you as they burst out of your chest howls out loud.

Though we have our boys, we are waiting to adopt a girl, so the theme of parents who want a child that they can't seem to have, and the theme of taking in a child that you didn't give birth to and/or adoption really hit home for us. I sat at the end of the movie and cried, and they were tears of laughter and sadness and hope all mixed up together. Even if you're not interested in adoption, this is really a touching show.

I wish Disney made more movies like this. Totally clean, nothing even remotely possibly offensive, and yet it wasn't just a kid show. It was interesting, engaging, witty. As noted above - good for everyone from ages 5 to 40!

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