For Joe, it is the identity of his father. From that mement, the destinies of the two boys become linked as both try to find the one thing they are missing.
A high foul ball yields tragic consequences. One day, an unexpected turn occurs when Simon gets to hit the ball for the first time during a baseball game. The Reverend Russell eventually tells Simon that he needs to stop coming to church for a while because everybody needs a break from him. Later in the movie, their differences center on Simon’s belief that God has a plan for every individual person. During a church service, Simon confronts the by-the-book Episcopalian priest the Reverend Russell (David Strathairn) with issues about faith and complaints about the church’s allegedly meaningless social functions. Simon is certain God is going to make him a hero…he is just not sure how.Īt Sunday School, Simon takes the blame from tyrannical Sunday School teacher Miss Leavey (Jan Hooks) for trouble caused by his fellow students. Happily, Joe’s mother, Rebecca, played by Ashley Judd, constantly displays great love and kindness to both boys. Both feel like outsiders because his mother refuses to tell anyone, even Joe, who his father is, and the townspeople, including Simon’s parents, don’t seem to care much for Simon. Simon and Joe (Joseph Mazzello) are now best friends and are on the same baseball team, where the coach only uses Simon to get a virtually automatic walk.
SIMON BIRCH TRUE STORY MOVIE
The movie then jumps ahead to 1964, 12 years later. The doctors proclaim Simon a miracle, and ever since then, he has been quick to remind anyone who forgets. In a flashback narrated by the adult Joe, the audience learns that Simon is the smallest delivery ever recorded in the history of Gravestown Memorial Hospital. Based loosely on John Irving’s book A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, the story is Joe’s memory of a remarkable dwarfed boy with great faith in God who became a hero and an instrument of God’s grace. Joe says that Simon is the reason he believes in God. The story begins with an adult Joe Wenteworth (played by an unbilled Jim Carrey) visiting the grave of his childhood friend Simon Birch (played by first-time actor Ian Michael Smith). SIMON BIRCH is the most spiritually intuitive, spiritually sensitive, pro-God, pro-faith movie released so far this year.
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